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Habitability

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Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life Detection
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Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life Detection

  • March 14, 2026
Potentially habitable worlds – Grok via Astrobiology.com This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT)…
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The Effect of Planetary Rotation Period on Clouds in a Global Climate Model with a Bin Microphysics Scheme
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The Effect of Planetary Rotation Period on Clouds in a Global Climate Model with a Bin Microphysics Scheme

  • March 8, 2026
Liquid CWP distributions for different rotation periods (columns). The top row shows zonal mean values for MG (blue)…
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Short-term Survival Of Tardigrades In Martian Regolith Simulants
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Short-term Survival Of Tardigrades In Martian Regolith Simulants

  • March 1, 2026
Images of tardigrades with mineral coatings. Each image is annotated with the sample, simulant and time of exposure…
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Photosynthetic Exergy I. Thermodynamic Limits For Habitable-zone Planets
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Photosynthetic Exergy I. Thermodynamic Limits For Habitable-zone Planets

  • February 26, 2026
Spectral flux and exergy at the top of the atmosphere for three blackbody models, all normalized to the…
SSpace
Ammonia on Europa: Large rectangle showing gray surface from above, with long, dark cracks and small red and purple pixelated shapes. A moon, Europa, with long cracks on its surface is to the left of the rectangle. It is connected to the rectangle by 2 thin white lines.
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New discovery of ammonia on Europa hints at active geology

  • February 8, 2026
View larger. | Composite image showing location of some of the ammonia-bearing compounds on Jupiter’s moon Europa (red…
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In this composite image, red pixels mark locations on Europa’s surface where ammonia-bearing compounds were detected; purple indicates no such detection. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
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Ammonia-Bearing Compounds Detected on Europa for First Time

  • January 31, 2026
A new analysis of archival data from the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on board NASA’s Galileo spacecraft…
SScience
Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star
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Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star

  • January 30, 2026
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow…
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NASA Has a New Estimate for Europa’s Ice Shell, and Whoa Is It Ever Thick
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NASA Has a New Estimate for Europa’s Ice Shell, and Whoa Is It Ever Thick

  • January 28, 2026
Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, is encased in a shell of water ice, and researchers have just…
SScience
Magnetic fields on super-Earths: Cutaway view of a large rocky planet. A ring of bright reddish material is around the core, with many thin loops reaching out into space.
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Powerful magnetic fields on super-Earths could boost chances of life

  • January 21, 2026
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of a super-Earth with a deep magma ocean generating a…
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New Model Suggests How Nutrients Could Penetrate Europa’s Ice Shell to Feed Its Hidden Ocean
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New Model Suggests How Nutrients Could Penetrate Europa’s Ice Shell to Feed Its Hidden Ocean

  • January 20, 2026
A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient…
SScience
Survey of nearest stars: Closeup planet with clouds, oceans and continents, a nearby bright star, and dots for more planets.
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New survey of nearest stars reveals best spots for life

  • January 20, 2026
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of Kepler-186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet about 500 light-years from Earth.…
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This 'Wet Lava Ball' in Space Somehow Clings to an Atmosphere
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This ‘Wet Lava Ball’ in Space Somehow Clings to an Atmosphere

  • December 13, 2025
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system,…
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