Scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker in narrowing the search for life in the cosmos. She has developed […]
Hubble uses Earth as proxy for identifying oxygen on potentially habitable exoplanets Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth’s own brand of sunscreen—ozone—in our atmosphere. This […]
First water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ planet K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or ‘exoplanet’, known to have both water […]
Your Skin Is Covered With a Potentially Deadly Pathogen, And We Need to Talk About It A bacterium called Staphylococcus epidermidis But because it’s so common, it means medical clinicians overlook its dark side – one […]