Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
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A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way's Center.
There’s been widespread agreement that a supermassive black hole resides in the Milky Way’s Center. But that may not be true. Researchers say that a dense clump of fermionic dark
Enceladus Trails A Wake Of Electromagnetic Ripples That Extend Over Half A Million Kilometers
Illustration of the electrodynamic interaction between Enceladus and Saturn. The primary Alfvén wing is shown in blue, and the reflected Alfvén wings in magenta. The arrow indicates the corotation direction
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,186 6 February 2026 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Casaletto JA, Zhao T, Yeung J, Lee A, Ansari A,
The Phylogenetic Context For The Origin Of A Unique Purple-green Photosymbiosis
Hypothetical sequence of events that led to the origin of the purple-green photosymbiosis of P. tenue. See main text for details. Note that all ancestors and extant species remain phagotrophic
Astrobiology Droid Update: Dragonfly Aerodynamic Testing
From left, Johns Hopkins APL engineers Tyler Radomsky and Felipe Ruiz install a rotor on the Dragonfly test model at the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in
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A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way’s Center.
There’s been widespread agreement that a supermassive black hole resides in the Milky Way’s Center. But that may not be true. Researchers say that a dense clump of fermionic dark
Illustration of the electrodynamic interaction between Enceladus and Saturn. The primary Alfvén wing is shown in blue, and the reflected Alfvén wings in magenta. The arrow indicates the corotation direction
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Casaletto JA, Zhao T, Yeung J, Lee A, Ansari A,
Hypothetical sequence of events that led to the origin of the purple-green photosymbiosis of P. tenue. See main text for details. Note that all ancestors and extant species remain phagotrophic
From left, Johns Hopkins APL engineers Tyler Radomsky and Felipe Ruiz install a rotor on the Dragonfly test model at the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in
For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are essential. Phosphorus is vital for the formation of DNA and RNA,
A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream behind the
A composite image shows the International Space Station as it transits the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA/Joel Kowsky Have you ever heard the saying, “You have to learn how
NASA has taken another step towards greater autonomy for planetary exploration rovers. In December, the space agency used AI to generate waypoints for Perseverance’s route on two separate days. The
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