02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
...a star's ultraviolet (UV) light splits apart carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules, freeing some of the oxygen atoms to form into O2, the kind of oxygen present in Earth's atmosphere. Because this process also produces significant and potentially detectable...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...time as a typical lifetime of protoplanetary disc, in order to attract a gaseous envelope. Past studies have focused on the abundances of oxygen and carbon in hot Jupiters to determine the location in the disc where the planet accreted, however these...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... Telescope, the study shows that more iron, carbon and oxygen atoms exist in the near-invisible reservoir of gas that ...topping over one million degrees Kelvin, reduce the fraction of the oxygen that is five times ionized, which is the ion observed ...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
.... One of the fundamental ingredients of life as we know it are amino acids; a simple organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, that build on one another to form proteins. To start the building process though, amino acids...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
...’s clouds. “The presence of even a few parts per billion of PH3 is completely unexpected for an oxidised atmosphere (where oxygen-containing compounds greatly dominate over hydrogen-containing ones),” write the authors in the their research paper...
08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
... of the deeper layers of Earth, four elements alone make up almost 90 percent of the Earth's uppermost portion, or crust; oxygen, silicon, aluminum and iron. Iron can also be found on all of our terrestrial neighbours in varying amounts. Mercury...
