Mars Mission: A Stress Test For The Search For Life
The Murchison meteorite fell in Australia in 1969, breaking into numerous fragments. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite…
ThousandWorlds: A Benchmark For Climate Emulation Of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Dataset overview. Output fields are defined on a 32 × 64 latitude–longitude grid. There are 53 fields in…
Pink Planet surprised scientists with its salt clouds
Spectroscopic studies had previously shown that the exoplanet GJ504b is shrouded in a pink haze. However, since then,…
Acidophilic Fungi As Possible Candidates For Living Forms In Venus’ Clouds
Present-day Venus, similar to Earth in terms of relative radius, acceleration of gravity and mean density, is characterised…
Anoxic Photo-oxidation Of Mn(II)-bearing Carbonates On Mars And Early Earth
Manganese oxides, thought to form almost exclusively through reactions between Mn2+ and O2, catalyze oxidative transformations among redox-sensitive…
An Unidentified Absorption Feature At 5.11 μm On The Surface Of Titan And Pluto From JWST Spectroscopy
NIRSpec average spectrum of Titan (black) compared with a radiative transfer calculation in which the surface albedo decreases…
Winter off to a dry start as El Nino weather pattern returns to New Zealand skies
“It means snowfall would be best on the Alps so there’s better skiing conditions closer to those hills.”…
NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The…
Ultraviolet-Driven Atmospheric Degeneracies Challenge Conventional Biosignature Frameworks for Terrestrial Planets with Ultracool M Dwarf Hosts: An Archean-Analog TRAPPIST-1 e Case Study
Comparison of input SEDs used in this study and molecular photoabsorption cross sections relevant to Archean-analog photochemistry. The…
Transport of Water In A Transient, Impact-Generated Atmosphere On Mercury
Initial structure of the Impact Plume 60 s post impact. The impactor strikes from the left, at a…
Astronomers Detect Clearest Signs Yet of Magnetic Fields on Extrasolar Planets
By tracking fierce winds racing through the atmospheres of seven ultra-hot Jupiters, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence…
What’s on in Auckland this weekend: Club bangers, hip hop, Pasifika pride and more
Expect high-energy sounds, big-rig lighting, and one of the most eclectic and electric dance floors in the city…