US EditionMetals Are Critical to Life. We Should Screen Exoplanets for Them
Researchers suggest screening exoplanets for critical transition metals to efficiently prioritize targets likely to support life, optimizing limited observational resources.
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Metals Are Critical To Life - We Should Screen Exoplanets For Them
Life is complicated, and not just in a philosophical sense. But one simple thing we know about life is that it requires energy, and to get that energy it needs certain fundamental elements. A new paper in preprint on arXiv from Giovanni Covone and Donato Giovannelli from the University of Naples discusses how we might use that constraint to narrow our search for stars and planets that could potentially harbor life. To put it simply, if it doesn’…
Metals are critical to life. We should screen exoplanets for them
Life is complicated, and not just in a philosophical sense. But one simple thing we know about life is that it requires energy, and to get that energy it needs certain fundamental elements. A new paper published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics by Giovanni Covone and Donato Giovannelli from the University of Naples discusses how we might use that constraint to narrow our search for stars and planets that could potentially harbor life. To put …
Life is complicated, and not only in a philosophical sense. But one simple thing we know about life is that it requires energy and to get that energy, it needs some fundamental elements. A new article published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics by Giovanni Covane and Donato Giovannelli of [...]
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