In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the

Concept and workflow of TEMI for mapping biomolecules with improved spatial resolution. — Nature Methods Editor’s note: as we send increasingly sophisticated astrobiology probes – to more places – often

Artist’s impression of Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone, namely a range of distance from a star where liquid water might