On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the four satellites of its exciting new sun-studying mission, PUNCH, have successfully reached their stations in orbit around our planet. They all lie
On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the four satellites of its exciting new sun-studying mission, PUNCH, have successfully reached their stations in orbit around our planet. They all lie
A member of the space crop production team prepares materials for Veggie seed pillows inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA/Cory S Huston When the
Experimental design and instructions for testing alternative localization methods. — Sensors 2025 Future planetary exploration missions will rely heavily on efficient human–robot interaction to ensure astronaut safety and maximize scientific
The generalised reasoning for the detection of a monoglyceride in the pyrolysis of a sample as evidence for the presence of viable life. — NPJ Space Exploration The detection of
Emergence and complexification of metabolic proteins in three epochs. The foundations of metabolism started when a set of metallopeptides emerged through the spontaneous, thermodynamically driven selection of polymerizing amino acids
There’s bad news for our hopes of habitable planets existing around TRAPPIST-1, with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finding no evidence for an Earth-like atmosphere on a third world
Global atmospheric C/O values for directly-imaged (blue) and transiting (purple) planets as a function of semi-major axis (left) and planet mass (right). This plot is reproduced using the data compiled
Maximum predicted emission frequency and radio flux density for known exoplanets (triangle symbols; data from ). The uncertainties on the predictions are estimated to one order of magnitude for the
Cross-correlation signal-to-noise maps of H2O, CO, Fe, and Mg in the atmosphere of WASP-121 b. The dashed vertical and horizontal white lines represent the stellar Vsys (38.12 km s−1, from
Comparison of elemental abundances from the literature and this work (filled circles) for the same stars. The y-axis shows the difference in abundance, literature – this work, plotted against the




