Cool Stars Have Different Mix Of Life-Forming Chemicals

Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 19:21 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 hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or "prebiotic," chemicals.

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