Alien Planet's Missing Methane Stumps Scientists

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 14:28 in Astronomy & Space

The atmosphere of a big, hot alien planet contains almost no methane, surprising astronomers who had thought the stinky gas was a common feature of such worlds.

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