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How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere — SWRI Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn’s moon Titan can maintain

This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. Evidence of ancient streams, deltas and lakes that

In black: enzymes and metabolic pathways inferred to be present in LUCA with at least PP = 0.75, with sampling in both prokaryotic domains. In grey: those inferred in our least-stringent threshold

Keith Cowing Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻 Follow on

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth — ESO Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant

Evolution of thermal properties of GJ 486b. The two plots at the top denote the stellar luminosity evolution (bolometric and XUV) and the mantle potential temperature evolution for GJ 486b.

Keith Cowing Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻 Follow on

An astronaut examines apiece of Martian ice — Grok via Astrobiology.com The inclination to explore across vast expanses has been a continual part of human history. In voyages across the

Fluorine on Earth — Astrobiology.com Life on Earth is known to rarely make fluorinated carbon compounds, as compared to other halocarbons. We quantify this rarity, based on our exhaustive natural