Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are the next clue to finding life on...
Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are the next clue to finding life on planets orbiting distant stars
Morgan Underwood, Rice University
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Yeimy J. Rivera, Smithsonian Institution; Michael L. Stevens, Smithsonian Institution, and Samuel Badman, Smithsonian Institution
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Jaclyn Champagne, University of Arizona
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A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go...
Water in space – a ‘Goldilocks’ star reveals previously hidden step in how water...
John Tobin, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the...
How the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly bright, complex and element-filled...
NASA/STScI
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation
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Searching for Super Earths
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Chris...
Stunning images open the era of the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers...
An Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects
JPL.NASA.Gov
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape
Karen Fox / Josh Handal JPL NASA
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this 360-degree view on July 3,...
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