If there's one chemical that causes excitement in the search for biosignatures on other worlds, it's methane.
  • OmnipotentEntity ( OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    There are many other ways of making methane, it’s not a very complicated molecule: CH4. It gets exciting when there’s a lot of it, because it’s not the most energetically stable molecule.

    EDIT: looks like the article goes into it.