Air sampling during a dust storm. Credit: Naama Lang-Yona How do living bacteria survive on the surface of dust particles carried by desert storms from the Sahara and Egypt to

A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material. Credit NASA Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return mission,

Snapshot of the triple transit of planet b, c, and d as seen by K2 at the end of 2016. This artistic representation has been created with the software tango

Results from the injection-recovery test for the helium envelope with a variable opacity. The top panel shows the inputted absorbance profiles (red curves), together with the empirically-retrieved absorbance profiles (red

Fractional abundances of PAHs as a function of the number of carbon atoms 𝑁C. Dotted lines denote the estimated abundance upper limits of large quasi-symmetric PAHs in NGC 7027, and