Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to confirm their findings.

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...

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Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

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Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

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