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A close-up of Apollo 17 lunar core sample 73001 being taken out of its drive tube for the first time since it was collected by Apollo astronauts in December 1972

Habitable Worlds Observatory — NASA This paper advances the concept maturity level (CML) of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) servicing architecture. Since servicing has occurred on other missions, this paper

Schematic Illustration of the Introduction of Cyclic Peptides via Ribosome in a Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System Credit POSTECH Inside our cells, ribosomes-the tireless “protein factories” of life-have just shown off

Hyperspectral maps of RR5-70-1. (a) Photograph of the RR5-70-1 original core. Dotted white outline shows cut sample region used for neutron computed tomographic scan (i.e., Figure 8a). (b) Hyperspectral image

Current and forthcoming constraints on radio line broadcasts in M31 (left) and three example Virgo cluster ellipticals (right), assuming that all broadcasts in each galaxy have the same EIRP ℓ.

Graph of the semimajor axis and eccentricity of the final terrestrial planets in the simulations of Table 1. Note that the majority of the planets formed or reached their final

Fraction of atmosphere retained 1 Gyr after a hypothetical Moonforming impact with 𝑓esc = 0.01 and 𝐷max = 100 km, as a function of the initial atmospheric mass (𝑚atm0). Filled

In the large graph, simulated matched-filter S/N over 1000 hours as a function of R, dark current, and read noise, for a modern exo-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star as observed

Number of stars capable of hosting observers (amongst a sample of 106) as a function of time. The darkest track assumes that all stars are equally capable of hosting life