Category: Astrobiology
Could “Fools’ Gold” have helped assemble the building blocks of life? Scientists measured the forces that allow iron pyrite to help amino acids bind to each other at the bottom of the ocean -- to understand how life may have formed a long time ago.
September 21, 2020 by Marcos Jusino-Maldonado Read More
If there was oxygen on a far away planet, how would we know? Scientists use computer models to simulate what oxygen would look like on far away planets and found a chemical signature that helps us tell the difference between oxygen from life and oxygen from other sources.
September 15, 2020 by Caitlin MacArthur Read More
Early Martian life may have used sulfur as an energy source Using an environment on Earth that simulates early Mars conditions, researchers found an abundance of bacteria that get their energy from sulfur-containing molecules, suggesting a new focus in the search for biosignatures on the Red Planet.
September 7, 2020 by Brooke Carruthers Read More
Neptune-sized planet could be the exposed core of a far-away gas giant Astronomers discover a planet that had less hydrogen and helium than was expected, and so it could be an exposed gas giant core left over from the formation of the solar system around it.
August 12, 2020 by Dylan Mankel Read More