Methane was not the climate savior once imagined for the middle chapter of Earth history

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 05:31 in Astronomy & Space

For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn't. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has fired the lead actor in that long-accepted scenario.

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