extraterrestrial water
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Pluto’s Neighborhood May Extend Billions of Miles Farther Into Space Than We Thought
While journeying through the far reaches of the solar system, the New Horizons probe picked up a dusty trail of icy fragments that may indicate that the Kuiper Belt—home to former planet Pluto and countless other objects—is way bigger than we thought. New observations from the NASA mission suggest that the massive donut-shaped outer zone…
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Webb Telescope Sees Tantalising Molecular Signals on Possible Water World
The Webb Space Telescope recently turned its focus to a nearby exoplanet and found that it may be a Hycean world, or a world completely covered in a single global ocean, and with a hydrogen atmosphere. And what’s more, the telescope detected a possible detection—note, possible detection, of dimethyl sulphide, a molecule only known to…
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Asteroid Samples Brought to Earth Contain Key Molecules for Life
Japan’s education ministry says that more than 20 types of amino acids were detected in samples of an asteroid that were brought to Earth in December 2020, The Japan Times reports. The detection is the first evidence that amino acids exist on asteroids in space and has implications for understanding how such vital organic molecules…
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Don’t Look Up Is a Climate Movie About More Than Disaster
When Don’t Look Up’s trailer dropped, I was dumbly excited to see it. As a climate person, you don’t get too many movies made for you. Having gotten a sneak peek, I can safely say it met expectations and then some.