A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs

identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond

Reference genome assemblies are foundational resources across the biological sciences

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List

identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond

A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs

NASA presentations at a National Academies of Science on Tuesday left the panel confused and concerned about what NASA plans to do with its Astrobiology research.

I asked Grok to tell me how to say "astrobiology" in the top 100 languages spoken on Earth. The response I got back from Grok is below.

A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs

identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond

Reference genome assemblies are foundational resources across the biological sciences

The ESA PLATO mission aims to detect and characterise Earth-size exoplanets orbiting bright, late-type stars

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List

A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs

identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond

Reference genome assemblies are foundational resources across the biological sciences

The ESA PLATO mission aims to detect and characterise Earth-size exoplanets orbiting bright, late-type stars

[astro-ph.EP] Previous ALMA observations have revealed unexpectedly strong and rapid variations in Titan’s high-altitude equatorial zonal winds, which present a challenge to our understanding of this ...

[astro-ph.GA] We find that the aromatic and aliphatic emission bands in four carbon-rich post-asymptotic giant branch stars with class D emission arise from a single carrier population: extensive alip...

The sub-Neptunes orbiting M dwarfs are usually assigned to one of two classes: rocky cores beneath primordial hydrogen, or volatile-rich bodies formed beyond the water-ice line.

Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences

The habitable zone (HZ) is a fundamental concept used to guide our search for temperate exoplanets.

[Tokyo Metropolitan University] Original source (Japanese) https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202609246495 Points We discovered that the linkers (connection points) between ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and tr...

[astro-ph.GA] Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and are among its smallest carbonaceous grains. Their infrared emission bands trace this small-grain pop...

Transmission spectroscopy of rocky exoplanets orbiting late M dwarfs is limited by stellar contamination rather than photon noise.

We present TOI-6981 b, a cold (Teq= 170.0 +/-4.5 K, assuming an Earth-like albedo) sub-Neptune (Rb=2.40+/-0.10 R⊕)

[astro-ph.GA] Sulfur (S) chemistry in the interstellar medium remains poorly constrained due to the longstanding “missing sulfur” problem, where a significant fraction of cosmic sulfur in molecular cl...

It is widely accepted that water vapor forms clouds by heterogeneous nucleation (condensation on pre-existing dry nuclei).

Chondrule sizes are an important discriminant of chondrite groups and chondrule formation theories.

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are spatially and temporally compact sources at cosmological distances.

Comets can supply volatile and prebiotic material to rocky planets, but survival of fragile molecules depends on atmospheric entry and impact.

Pre-stellar cores are the sites of the earliest stages of star formation.

This HiRISE image shows light-toned layered deposits within Iani Chaos

Studies suggest that protoplanetary disks around stars with high carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratios can produce terrestrial planets

Translation of the genetic code into proteins is universal across life,

As physical samples of distant planetary systems, the compositions of interstellar objects (ISOs) should correlate with the properties of their diverse parent stars

Abundance ratios between elements synthesized on different nucleosynthetic timescales provide empirical chemical clocks

Sulfur is the tenth most abundant element in space

This handbook provides guidance to mission providers and Planetary Protection (PP) practitioners on implementing PP measures for both robotic and crewed space missions.

Pre-stellar cores are the sites of the earliest stages of star formation.

ultra-deep spectroscopy of nine star-forming galaxies drawn from the Origins of Metal Enrichment in Galaxies at cosmic dAwn (OMEGA) survey.

Bacteriophage Qβ, first isolated in 1961, has served for more than six decades as a model system for molecular and viral evolution

[ACS Earth Space Chemistry] Although energetic and nonenergetic processing of interstellar dust grain surfaces and ice is thought to be one of the dominant mechanisms for the extraterrestrial synthesi...

Marine microbiomes may experience extreme environmental stress during atmospheric transport,

The astrochemist traveled to Vatican City to accept the award in a September 24 ceremony.

Source: LinkedIn [COSPAR]. Yesterday, 29 September, the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP) at its Executive meeting endorsed a proposed update to the Mars planetary protection policy, followin...

This handbook provides guidance to mission providers and Planetary Protection (PP) practitioners on implementing PP measures for both robotic and crewed space missions.

Ancient sea-level changes provide new evidence that during the Jurassic and Cretaceous

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.