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Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reactions are

LIFE RCN Workshop Dr. Greg Fournier is an Associate Professor of Geobiology at MIT. He studies the deep evolutionary history of life, applying molecular clocks and phylogenetics to uncover how

A collection of photometric fluxes and spectra of T Cha are shown. The blue vertical lines represent the variability in optical fluxes (Alcalá et al. 1993). IR photometric fluxes are

Assembly formed by primordial peptides as observed by bright field Microscopy Credit Frenkel-Pinter Lab Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A

Professional Development Webinars Time: October 3rd, 2025 at 3 p.m. ETCareers in Planetary Science and Astrobiology These multi-disciplinary fields include a variety of career options, ranging from academic to government,

Artist’s concept of how rocky, potentially habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy might appear. Data gathered by telescopes in space and on the ground suggest that small, rocky planets are

New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean over 100 miles (about 170 kilometers) deep. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI/Mikayla Kelley/Peter Buhler Growing evidence suggests that

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggests the

IRAS 16293-2422 b — European Southern Observatory Comets have similar compositions to interstellar medium ices, suggesting at least some of their molecules maybe inherited from an earlier stage of evolution.

Figure from Rebollido et al. (2024). The debris disk around Beta Pictoris seen with JWST/MIRI. — astro-ph.IM The study of the last stages of planet formation, also known as debris