AGU Astrobiology Special: Icy Worlds Get New Planetary Protection Guidelines
This week from AGU astrobiology special edition: Icy worlds get new planetary protection guidelines AGU News AbSciCon26 –…
Scientists Stunned by New Organic Molecules Found on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English…
Why Most Alien Worlds May Be Too Dry for Life
This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of…
NASA’s Perseverance, Curiosity Panoramas Capture Two Sides of Mars
Learn how NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are exploring different chapters of the Red Planet’s ancient history.…
NASA cleanroom fungus could survive a trip to Mars, raising contamination concerns
A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of…
Four-legged robots look to speed up Mars and Moon exploration
The slowest part of a Mars mission is often not the driving, it is the waiting. A rover…
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Extraction and purification of organic molecules from samples The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were…
Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images
With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat,…
A Most Unusual Lake – NASA Science
Scientists estimate that Earth is home to more than 100 million lakes. Among the most unusual is Lake…
Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive
Tardigrades are tiny, endearing, and practically invincible. As it turns out, however, not even tardigrades can survive the…
Tardigrades and water reveal potential for food growth on Mars
Tardigrades have a reputation for being nearly indestructible. These microscopic animals, often nicknamed water bears, can dry out…
Scientists use microbes on ISS to extract valuable metals from meteorites
A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead.…