Cool stars have different mix of life-forming chemicals
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 07:56
in Astronomy & Space
Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or 'prebiotic,' chemicals...