Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vapourising massive amounts of rock and blasting it into space ...

AAAS] Ancient sea-level changes provide new evidence that during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, Earth underwent episodes of rapid “true polar wander” (TPW). “These findings refute the view of TPW as ...

From a human perspective, Enceladus is anything but a comfortable place to live: Icy cold, hardly any oxygen, and – below its ...

Titan, a unique body in the solar system, resembles a life-size Miller-Urey experiment where pockets of liquid water might interact with abundant organic matter.

Time-variable stellar heating may create new climate states, such as permanently hot or cold hemispheres, on asynchronous planets.

This handbook provides guidance to mission providers and Planetary Protection (PP) practitioners on implementing PP measures ...

Far-red light (FRL) cyanobacteria occupy spectrally filtered habitats where visible wavelengths are depleted but far-red ...

Düsseldorf and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne has investigated how mutations have ...

Biorelevant nitrogen heterocycles, including the five canonical nucleobases found in RNA and DNA, have recently been ...

M-type stars offer a unique opportunity to investigate these questions, thanks to their favorable planet-to-star radius and ...

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

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