Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen –…
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Artist’s Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy…
Some exoplanets have one side permanently facing their star while the other side is in perpetual darkness. The ring-shaped border between these permanent day and…
Rutgers University scientists have identified a portion of a protein called “Nickelback” that is a likely candidate for kickstarting life on Earth over 3 billion…
Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz, along with fellow laureate Jack Szostak and astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, has announced the creation of a new international alliance called the…
This illustration of early Earth includes liquid water as well as magma seeping from the planet’s core due to a large impact. Scientists at NASA…
Tissint meteorite. Credit: Kurt Kracher, Natural History Museum Vienna Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago,…
Scientists published a paper in the journal Science that answers questions about what Earth was like billions of years ago and what traits helped life…
Artist’s impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and…
Dr. Queenie Chan. Credit: Royal Holloway, University of London New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which crashed landed…
Scientists are uncertain about the origins of life on Earth, but one hypothesis is that meteorites brought amino acids, the building blocks of life, to…
An artist’s concept of a comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Comet strikes on JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the…
Hand sample of Dresser Formation stromatolite, showing a complex layered structure formed of hematite, barite, and quartz, and a domed upper surface (dome arrow). Credit:…
The spectral data from SOFIA overlain atop this image of Venus from NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft is what the researchers observed in their study, showing…
The impact crater, which was caused by an impact even around 8 million years ago, is about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in diameter. The crater…
Deinococcus radiodurans (affectionately known as “Conan the Bacterium”) is particularly well-suited to surviving Mars’ harsh environment. In experiments, it survived astronomical amounts of radiation in…
Artist’s illustration of a young red dwarf stripping away a planet’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Planets orbiting the most common star…
Low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
The TRAPPIST-1 system, where we may soon have more information about the atmospheres of rocky, Earth-like planets from the James Webb Space Telescope. It is…
Perseverance Workspace at ‘Skinner Ridge’: NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater.…