AbSciCon 2026 This media advisory is available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/abscicon26-tipsheet-1-exoplanet-earth-evolution-biosignatures-habitable-worlds/ Astrobiology Science Conference 2026 Monona Terrace Community and Convention CenterOne John Nolen DriveMadison, Wisconsin 5370317 – 22 May 2026 Press contact:Sean Cummings,

After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its robotic arm and pulled the entire rock off the surface with it.

Graphical Abstract Experiments exploring potential emergence-of-life chemistry in a laboratory setting critically depend on simulating realistic early-Earth environments. Such experimental conditions include the implementation of controlled high temperatures and pressures,

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1D marginalized posterior distributions for key parameters in the atmospheric fit to the 16-bin MIRI LRS eclipse spectrum. The top-left panel shows the derived posterior on total surface pressure (solid