NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet
NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet
www.sciencealert.com NASA Just Announced The Discovery of Methane on a Distant Exoplanet
If there's one chemical that causes excitement in the search for biosignatures on other worlds, it's methane.
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Methane, meaning farts? Which means possible organism?
There are many other ways of making methane, it's not a very complicated molecule: CH4. It gets exciting when there's a lot of it, because it's not the most energetically stable molecule.
EDIT: looks like the article goes into it.