Thousands of exoplanets orbit nearby stars, showcasing a remarkable diversity in mass, size and orbits. With the James Webb Space Telescope now operational, we are observing exoplanet atmospheres and aiming
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NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competition
Image Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. Challenges facing the commercial
Ukraine will host first test for Leonardo’s Michelangelo security dome
MILAN — The first field test of Leonardo’s Michelangelo “security dome” architecture will take place in Ukraine by the end of 2026, CEO Roberto Cingolani announced March 12. Michelangelo, first
Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life Detection
Potentially habitable worlds – Grok via Astrobiology.com This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT) to planetary atmospheres as a biosignature framework suitable for the Habitable Worlds
The Impact Of Supermassive Black Holes On Exoplanet Habitability: I. Spanning The Natural Mass Range
Miller’s Planet – Interstellar While the influence of supermassive black hole (SMBH) activity on habitability has garnered attention, the specific effects of active galactic nuclei (AGN) winds, particularly ultrafast outflows
Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars – If it Orbited an Old M-Dwarf Star
The three-dimensional MHD stellar wind solution for Barnard’s Star. Color contours represent number density values, while selected magnetic field lines are also shown. The solid white circle marks the orbit
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Stellar flares observed in JWST/NIRISS time-series spectroscopy of TRAPPIST-1. Each column shows one flare event during transits of the TRAPPIST-1c or TRAPPIST-1f planets. Tow row: Light curves with the total
Satellite images reveal the scope of destruction in the south of France caused by the worst wildfire to hit the country in over seven decades. The fire was first detected
Snapshots of a cross-sectional slice of a head-on collision between a non-rotating Venus and a 0.1 M⊕ impactor at 10 km s−1 . shown at multiple time steps. Initial energy
Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the
Ground-based light curves from LCOGT, KeplerCam, and MUSCAT2. The colored data points correspond to the binned data at 5 minute cadence. The solid black line is the median model from
χ2 maps for HCN, CO2 + 13CO2, C6H6, C2H4, C2H6, CH4, and water. The color scale shows the χ2min/χ22 . The best fit model (χ2 min/χ2 = 1) is marked
A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, when
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