This artist’s impression shows the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. In the outermost part of the disc, volatile gases are frozen out as ice, which contains complex organic

The core (gold and black) and surface (silver) residues that were randomised Credit Albert Escobedo/Centro de Regulación Genómica Proteins are life’s molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food

This is an example of a debris-covered glacier on Mars. New research into these features suggests that they are purer than once thought, with implications for understanding Mars’ overall water

Zonally and temporally averaged zonal-wind (left) and meridional circulation streamfunction (right) profiles for both our exo-Earth analogue model (top) and the tidally-locked, TRAPPIST-1e-like, model (bottom) of SM25. Note that the

Accuracy of the retrieved oblateness parameter in the light curve which included red noise, for all eight σw noise levels. Squares in the input f–ϑ grid are coloured based on