Planets with volcanic activity are considered better candidates for life than worlds without such heated internal goings-on. Now, graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to […]
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Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
Transient Sulfate Aerosols as a Signature of Exoplanet Volcanism
Geological activity is thought to be important for the origin of life and for maintaining planetary habitability. We show that transient sulfate aerosols could be a signature of exoplanet volcanism, […]
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Origin & Evolution of Life
How Some of Earth's Earliest Animals Lived and Died
New three-dimensional reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals on Earth developed, and provide some answers as to why they went extinct. A bizarre group of uniquely shaped organisms […]
Posted inHabitable Zones, Mars
A Habitable Environment on Martian Volcano?
Heat from a volcano erupting beneath an immense glacier would have created large lakes of liquid water on Mars in the relatively recent past. And where there’s water, there is […]