Mars

Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars

• Press Release
• January 31, 2026

Origin & Evolution of Life

What The Earliest Evidence For Life Tells Us About The Early Evolution Of The Biosphere

• Status Report
• January 31, 2026

Conferences and Meetings

LIFE NASA RCN Seminar 11 February 2026

• Status Report
• January 31, 2026

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

High-Pressure Torsion-Induced Transformation of Adenosine Monophosphate: Insights into Prebiotic Chemistry of RNA by Astronomical Impacts

• Status Report
• January 31, 2026

Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: Opportunities and Limitations of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Astrobiology

• Status Report
• January 31, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Why Are Tatooine Planets Rare? Blame General Relativity

• Press Release
• January 30, 2026

Extinction events

Key Drivers Of Recurrent Extinction In The Triassic

• Status Report
• January 30, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

The Role of Intrinsic Temperature and Vertical Mixing in Characterizing Sub-Neptune Atmospheres

• Status Report
• January 30, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Novel Way To Detect Signals From Stellar And Exoplanetary Systems Unveiled

• Press Release
• January 30, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Exoplanet Candidate HD 137010 b: An Ice-Cold Earth Analog?

• Press Release
• January 30, 2026

Extinction events

Huayuan Biota Decodes Earth’s First Phanerozoic Mass Extinction

• Press Release
• January 30, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

A New Signal Around HD 206893 B: An Exomoon Candidate Revealed By Ultra-high-precision Astrometry

• Press Release
• January 30, 2026

Analog Studies

Setting A Polyphasic Approach To Study Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Communities As A Toolkit For Astrobiology

• Status Report
• January 30, 2026

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. IV: A Multi-planet Model for Reproducing the Radius Valley and Intra-system Size Similarity of Planets around Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs

• Status Report
• January 30, 2026

News Summary Archives

Abiotic Formation Of Nitrile Precursors To Amino Acids And Nucleobases In Interstellar Ice Analogues

• Status Report
• January 30, 2026