NASA’s Phoenix mission in 2008 was the first to excavate down and capture photos of ice, pictured here, in the Mars equivalent of the Arctic Circle. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas

Researchers have long been interested in Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbours lakes, seas, sand dunes and a thick atmosphere full of nitrogen, methane, and complex

Upper panel: UV flux reaching the surface of the planet TOI-700 d for an Archean atmosphere, depicted in purple (fUV=1) and red (fUV=10), and a modern Earth-like atmosphere, in green

The continuum-divided spectra of the Saturnian satellites, in the region of the O-D absorption. The red line shows a gaussian fit to the data using a fixed width. Most satellites

ENFYS Infrared Spectrometer — Aberystwyth University The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from

Plate reconstruction of West African Craton (blue) and Laurentia (orange) according to Kent statistical treatment of sedimentary data and Bingham statistical treatment of coeval volcanic data.– Science Earth’s Ediacaran Period,

A replacement has now been found for the underwater vehicle Ran, which contributed to a wealth of new knowledge about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, among other things. Ran II