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The 112-foot DSS-56 in Madrid, Spain — NASA.gov The Deep Space Network (DSN) is the primary means of commanding, tracking, and receiving data from all of NASA’s deep space missions,

ChemOrigins The origin of life is one of the most compelling questions in science. While experimental prebiotic chemistry has produced a wide range of reactions and plausible pathways, the resulting

An artist rendition of comet C/2014 UN271, the largest known comet in the Oort Cloud. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular

Graphical abstract – Commun Chem. via PubMed P-N species e.g., amidophosphates readily phosphorylate organics, thereby overcoming the so-called ‘Phosphate Problem’. However, the formation of amidophosphates by plausible early Earth geochemical

Detailed retrieval results for WASP-43 b: Upper row presents (from left to right) the fitting spectra for each retrieval configuration tested through this population study, the retrieved temperature profile, as

Graphical abstract — astro-ph.EP Photoionization by high-energy photons creates nonthermal electrons with a broad range of energies that heat and chemically transform the atmospheres of planets. The specifics of the

Researchers Ian Hawes of the University of Waikato and Marc Schallenberg of the University of Otago measure the physicochemical conditions of a meltwater pond. Credit: Roger Summons When the Earth

A family portrait of hydrocarbons in Titan’s transmission spectrum obtained with Cassini/VIMS. Best fit model (thick blue line) to Titan’s spectrum obtained during visit T10 (see Table 1) from Robinson

Calculated dayside composition for HD 209458b. Dotted lines correspond to the initial composition (chemical equilibrium for the gas giants and equal uniform abundances for secondary atmospheres), dashed lines to a

Genome-wide distributions of nonreference variants on 17 Chlamydomonas chromosomes in evolved and mt+ founder strains.– Genome Biol Evol. via PubMed The evolution from unicellular to multicellular organisms facilitates further phenotypic