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astrobiology
In a major announcement, a team of scientists is claiming to have detected trace amounts of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. It’s a bizarre and potentially monumental finding, as living organisms are the only known source of this stinky, toxic gas.
Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind theorised to exist on many rocky exoplanets, according to a new paper.
For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of finding something the computers had missed—an exercise that has resulted in the discovery of what is now arguably the most Earth-like planet known to astronomers.
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