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The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) 2026 Conference The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) 2026 Conference will be organised by the Space Exploration Institute in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, from the 1st

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Life Emerges On Early Earth — Grok via Astrobiology.com Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry — but it’s also an

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are used for scientific research both on Earth and in space. NASA / Dominic Hart Source Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation

Summer School: Icy Bodies and Life Summer School: Icy Bodies and Life in Tartu, Estonia1 – 8 August, 2026 The summer school Icy Bodies and Life (Tartu, Estonia 1-8 August

Distribution of our candidates on an HR diagram. The red cross marks the Sun’s position, the background colors provide approximate stellar types via the classifications in Pecaut & Mamajek (2013).

log R′HK(Teff) as a function of age for solar twins and solar analogs. Blue squares represent the six new seismic solar analogs listed in Table 1. Orange, dark-gray, and light-gray

NGTS-10 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.162 Jupiters, it takes 0.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is

IRAS 15398 JWST NIRSpec spectrum (Program ID 1854, PI: M. McClure), NIRSpec Prism spectrum (Program ID 6161, PI: K. Slavicinska), and MIRI-MRS spectrum (Program ID 2151, PI: Y.-L. Yang) with

Time-resolved IR spectra from electron irradiation of CaCO3 at 50, 100, and 120 K under two electron fluxes, normalized to the preirradiation CaCO3 baseline and truncated to the 4.2–4.3 μm