"We therefore caution against the use of phosphine as a biosignature until these discrepancies are resolved." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a ...

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Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine (PH 3), an explosive, highly toxic gas. Subscribe to our ...

Not often do astronomers come across a tear in the tissue of a galaxy a scab so big it might span one-fifth of the Milky Way. But in the spiral galaxy Leo’s NGC 3627, scientists have discovered just ...

An illustration of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, which is composed of a red dwarf star (left), a white dwarf (center) and the brown dwarf where phosphine was detected (right). Adam Burgasser For the ...

CYPRESS, Texas – Two Cypress Ranch High School parents are speaking out after discovering that their children’s participation in school football events was unexpectedly reduced — and they were never ...

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A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

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