The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September ...

NASA] NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow scientists to explore wide swaths of the ...

New research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets ...

Organic material in the Murchison and Aguas Zarcas meteorites preserves molecular records of early solar system chemistry and ...

Institute of Science Tokyo] Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hides a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. From fractures near its south pole, material from this ocean is ejected into space as a plume ...

[COSPAR]. Yesterday, 29 September, the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP) at its Executive meeting endorsed a ...

Researchers teamed up to get a fresh look at the complex makeup of meteorites and glimpse into our solar system’s past.

UC Riverside] A nearby star system with two suns could potentially support an Earth-sized planet in a region where liquid ...

The phosphorylation of nucleosides and their subsequent polymerization are key issues in the study of the Origins of Life.

International Journal of Astrobiology] We propose a novel method for estimating possible biological evolutionary stage on ...

Astronomers identified water, methane and ammonia in the atmosphere of HATS-6 b, a giant planet 500 light-years away from ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma’s geologic history with global ...