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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

This MODERN living glass sponge was spotted during a 2018 cruise. This photo reveals the bright colors and textures commonly associated with the living sponge, which is usually found in

21 tRNA are synthesized through transcription and processing and used for translation of proteins of interest. Credit – Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The

a Mars Orbital LASER Altimeter (MOLA) map of equatorial Mars with black boxes indicating locations of the Juventae Plateau and Aram Chaos (red indicates higher elevations and blue lower elevations).