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Carbon Discovered on Distant Planet Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a star 63 light years from Earth. Although there's no way that this particular planet could support life, being able to spot carbon dioxide in its atmosphere offers hope for probing the atmospheres of planets more like Earth — and so bolstering the search for life outside the Solar System. (source: nature.com)
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