A failed star just taught us something new about the search for alien life.
- Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, UNSW
Phosphorus is the most elusive element crucial for life as we know it – and we now have the first evidence there’s some available in the oceans of Enceladus.
The discovery of phosphine in the acidic clouds of Venus can’t be explained by any known chemical or geological processes.
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