Astrobiology

Rock description, contamination discrimination, and in situ microbial detection. a, b, Core sample under visible (a) and UV light (b), showing a crack (red arrowhead) made with a sterile hammer.

Roman Research Nexus With the release of the cloud-hosted Roman Research Nexus, STScI provides astronomers around the world an environment where they can prepare to work with the massive data

Please be advised of a slight change to the scheduling for our upcoming online workshop, “The Rare Microbiome, Contamination & Planetary Protection”, taking place on Friday, 17 April. To ensure

2D color map as a function of Teq and , where the color denotes the logarithm of the photochemistry effect-included sooting propensity at P =1 mbar, η∗1mbar, as defined in

The concept behind the model is simple: life can travel to and terraform planets around other stars. In doing so, the planet that life travels to becomes more similar to

Meteorite samples — EHU-University of the Basque Country Several contaminants, including traces of ink, originating in the preparation of subsamples, have been identified in Martian meteorites by the EHU’s research

O+2 density at Ganymede’s surface, modeled from the chemical equilibrium between ionization and recombination of O2, using the electron-impact ionization rates from Figure 2c. Photoionization is included in the sunlight

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) captured by the Subaru Telescope on December 13, 2025 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time). This image was created by combining three different wavelengths: V-band (550 nanometers, depicted