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NASA just found a crucial building block for organic chemistry.

Exoplanets that form beyond their solar system's 'soot line' can have far more carbon than Earth. What does that mean for life?

Astronomers are suggesting a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that takes into account a zone not previously considered: the space between the star and whats called soot-line in planet-forming disks.

How many angels can dance on the curl of a string, or surf on a solar flare?

Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 26, 2023 - A University of Michigan astronomer and his team are suggesting a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that takes into account a zone not previously considered: the space between the s

Researchers suggest a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that takes into account a zone not previously considered.

Artist impression of a young planet-forming disk illustrating the respective locations of the soot and water-ice lines. Planets born interior to the soot line will be silicate-rich. Planets born interior to the water-ice line, but exterior to the soot line will be silicate and soot-rich (“Sooty Worl