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The ice blanketed bedrock of the Transantarctic Mountains. Credit Timothy Paulsen A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (hereafter, Roman) is NASA’s next astrophysics flagship mission. When fully operational in 2027, Roman will provide the astronomical community

Exoplanet Discovery Database Discovering an exoplanet doesn’t mean having one, definitive eureka moment. Instead, it requires multiple observations, sometimes from multiple observatories, and the scientific community coming together in agreement

Schematic diagram showing the three stages of cooling from Bondi radius delaminations. In (a), the planet forms a Bondi radius boundary layer of thickness ∆RB with a temperature contrast ∆TB

Binary collision-induced H2–He absorption coefficient, α, normalized by the hydrogen and helium gas densities, as function of frequency in the fundamental band, at 296 K. The parato-ortho distribution, is representative

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Pit on Mars – NASA Editor’s note: On Earth pits – large caves – usually formed as chambers inside of limestone due to water erosion and collapses – can host

First direct image of 14 Her c. JWST/NIRCam coronagraphic imaging of the 14 Her system with the MASKA335R coronagraph (transmission indicated by gray shaded circles). North is up, east is

Results for particle injection simulations 1 and 2, that test the scattering efficiency of a Jupiter analog (e = 0.05; top panel) compared with an eccentric Jupiter (e = 0.23;

Drake Awards Celebrate the Search for Life Beyond Earth On May 20, the SETI Institute held its annual Drake Awards event in Mountain View, CA, honoring contributions to SETI or