This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now,
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now,
WASHINGTON — The Space Force will assume control of all space missions currently handled by Air National Guard units by Oct. 1, a consolidation move that bypasses years of lobbying
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






