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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used LED lights on the end of its robotic arm to create this rare nighttime view of the Red Planet’s surface on Dec. 6, 2025, the

Allan Hills, Antarctica Credit: Photo by Austin Carter, COLDEX Scientists say multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun.

ID: ESP_069857_2650 date: 21 June 2021 altitude: 318 km NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona larger image The North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) are large layered deposits of dusty water-ice in the northern

Strength of key long-term feedbacks governing Earth’s climate system (Forster et al. 2021; Arnscheidt & Rothman 2020; Abbot 2016; Koll & Cronin 2018). Each bar represents the feedback parameter in

Planet mass (or minimum mass) as a function of orbital period for planetary systems hosting cold Jupiters. Gray points represent the full population of confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet

LEA of microbial communities from torus room waters and other environmental samples. Symbol “+” indicates the positions of the samples analyzed in this study, together with the sample names (TW1,

Structures of selected H2O adsorption configurations for cluster (left) and monolayer (right). Ice structures were generated with global optimization. The labels indicate the adsorption energy and the number of hydrogen

A group of ecologically tolerant microbes known as ‘generalists’ can thrive across very different environments, creating a planet-wide, interconnected network of microbiomes. — Credit Daniela Velasco/EMBL In a new study

Tagoudite Formation in the Central High Atlas Mountains, Morocco In 2016 while hiking on a hillside in Morocco, geologist Rowan Martindale saw something that made her stop in her tracks: