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Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has used to collect samples as of July 24, 2025, the 1,574th

Figure 5.) Stromatolite lamination architectural types and associated examples, reproduced from Grey, K and Awramik, S.M. 2020, Handbook for the Study and Description of Microbialites (Geological Survey of Western Australia,

ASGSR 2025 We are pleased to announce the abstract submission deadline for ASGSR 2025 has been extended to August 1st, 2025 at 23:59 EDT. Don’t miss this final opportunity to

Near-UV to visible reflectance spectrum of 3I/ATLAS obtained with OSIRIS/GTC and normalized to unity at 5500 Å. Normalized reflectance of 1I/’Oumuamua (in brown) from Fitzsimmons et al. (2018) and 2I/Borisov

Image: The turquoise waters southeast of the Kuwaiti island of Failaka are captured in this image acquired by the Φsat-2 mission. — ESA Larger image The turquoise waters southeast of

This artist’s impression shows the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. In the outermost part of the disc, volatile gases are frozen out as ice, which contains complex organic

The core (gold and black) and surface (silver) residues that were randomised Credit Albert Escobedo/Centro de Regulación Genómica Proteins are life’s molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food

This is an example of a debris-covered glacier on Mars. New research into these features suggests that they are purer than once thought, with implications for understanding Mars’ overall water

Zonally and temporally averaged zonal-wind (left) and meridional circulation streamfunction (right) profiles for both our exo-Earth analogue model (top) and the tidally-locked, TRAPPIST-1e-like, model (bottom) of SM25. Note that the