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Polyester microdroplets (Credit: Tony Z. Jia) Lactic acid is not only a major byproduct of primitive synthetic processes such as spark discharge or UV irradiation, it also is a significant

The First American To Walk On Mars — Grok/Astrobiology.com As we prepare for a future first mission to Mars with a human crew, the United States, under the Outer Space

Golden Dome Cave (2,229 ft / 679 m) One of the “Moderately Challenging Caves.” — National Park Service We report the draft genome sequence of a member of a potentially

The Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) Flight Facility on the exterior of the space station exposes materials to the harsh environment of space. — NASA Materials in low Earth

A miniature black smoker – The syringe injects the sulfidic fluid into the iron-rich solution in the vial. This precipitates a black iron-sulfide membrane. © Vanessa Helmbrecht The very first

This image of Europa’s surface was taken by the Galileo spacecraft on February 20, 1997 from a distance of 1240 miles (2000 kilometers). Larger image Europa, Jupiter’s second Galilean moon,

Absorption cross-sections in the JWST/MIRI LRS wavelength range for dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, and a selection of the hydrocarbons considered in our model exploration. — astro-ph.EP Claims of detections of

Comparison of ACOS and Diffusion with and without bias correction/finetuning for the holdout year of 2022. We compare the point estimate of each method (top row) by evaluating the RMSE.

A.I.-generated view of a solar eclipse above a spruce forest — Grok via Astrobiology.com Editor’s note: In the “Avatar” film series the interconnectedness of trees and other life forms is

(left) Map of the power-law index α250, centered at 250 GHz, of the continuum brightness temperature in Orion (see Eq. 8), after a convolution to reach a resolution of 40