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LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an Earth-size world about 86 light-years away. The gravitational tug from a more massive planet in the system, shown as a blue dot in

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image of the “Altadena” drill hole using its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on June 8, 2025 — Sol 4564, or Martian day 4,564 of the

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto’s surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic

Red dwarf stars are more favorable for transiting planet atmosphere characterization. The main way we observe exoplanet atmospheres today is via transiting planets. The planet transit signal is the planet-to-star

Left: top-view of the SAMOS optical design;15 the layout is compact and highly folded to fit the reduced envelop available at the SOAR Adaptive Optics Module SAM focal plane. Right:

JWST Summer School The inaugural STScI’s JWST Summer School will take place in Baltimore on August 4 to 15, 2025, and focus on High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The first week

The ER potential energy surface along the minimum energy path for (a) H atom approaching an hydroxyl group from infinity and (b) H2 molecule abstraction from the enstatite nanocluster. —

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Averaged Raman spectra (a) acquired from A. thaliana grown on treated and untreated lunar regolith at 47 days old. Changes in the intensities of vibrational bands that can be assigned