The lifespan of the biosphere is necessarily constrained between the onset of Earth’s habitability (the “habitability window,” constrained between ~4.5 and ~3.9 Ga) (147) and its end (the extinction of

Graphical abstract — Computational simulation/modeling A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ancient supercontinent 1.5

The Teledyne Marine-Rutgers University Sentinel Redwing autonomous underwater vehicle is embarking on an underwater journey that could be a world first: circumnavigating the globe. — Teledyne Marine Editor’s note: When

An artist’s concept of the exoplanet WASP-18b. Credits: NASA/GSFC Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones—one so

Astrobiologist Kennda Lynch examining microbial mats in the Pilot Valley Basin, a paleolake basin in Utah cited in this new study – in an earlier, separate NASA expedition in 2017.

Regime diagram showing four distinct climate regimes, according to our semi-analytical model. The solid blue line represents the instellation above which an atmosphere enters an inhibited state, dashed lines represent

System architectures and HZ boundaries for the Gaia-4 (left) and Gaia-5 (right) systems, showing the orbit of the planet in each case. The HZ regions are shown in green, where