Serious stargazing requires planning, right? A dark-sky site, a heavy telescope, a warm jacket. A long drive home. It really doesn’t have to be this way. Sure, light pollution maps,
Serious stargazing requires planning, right? A dark-sky site, a heavy telescope, a warm jacket. A long drive home. It really doesn’t have to be this way. Sure, light pollution maps,
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space
DIYNAFLUOR Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of other worlds and understanding the processes whereby other biospheres arise and evolve, thought needs to be given to developing
Tricorders & Sensors Status Report Astrobiology via x-mol.net April 27, 2026 Filed under amino acid, Astrobiology via x-mol.net, biochemistry, Biosignatures, Enceladus, Europa, Europa Clipper, habitablility, organic chemistry, SUrface Dust Analyzer
Schematic of the model for carbonaceous chondrite formation. We assume that chondrules and refractory inclusions are rigid particles, and that the matrix is fragile. Rigid and fragile materials can stick
Status Report JGR Planets April 27, 2026 Filed under CheMin, cryohydrates, Curiosity rover, ESA, Gale Crater, JGR Planets, Mars, Mars Life Explorer, Rosalind Franklin, Sedimentary rock, starkeyite Compilation of the
The picture was taken from the top of the LSS after the chamber was reopened. It gives us a direct view of Plato’s 26 ultrasensitive cameras. These are the special
Overview of the MIRI-MRS spectra of the three T Tauri disks along with ALMA views of their dust emission for illustrative purposes. The mid-IR emission is dominated by a dust
(A) Map of the study area within the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Salar Grande is outlined by the white dashed line. The star depicts the sampling location. (B)
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for






