Professor and Head of School, UNSW
I am a geologist with world-leading expertise on all aspects of the early Earth, including crust-formation processes, tectonics, and the habitats of, and evidence for, early life. I am the director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, a NASA-affiliated organisation, and am involved with NASA on their Mars2020 mission to search for life on Mars.
For the first time, astronomers have found life-supporting molecules called phosphates on Enceladus
Jun 15, 2023 05:24 am UTC| Science
The search for habitable conditions beyond Earth has just become more interesting with the discovery of biologically available phosphorus from one of Saturns moons. Phosphorus is the most elusive of the six crucial...
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