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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 15 February 2026: Diving Under The Ice At Lake Untersee

Dale Andersen's Field Reports

Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 15 February 2026: Diving Under The Ice At Lake Untersee

Curiosity Lights Up ‘Nevado Sajama’ at Night

Mars

Curiosity Lights Up ‘Nevado Sajama’ at Night

Course Correction Needed Quickly To Avoid Pathway To ‘Hothouse Earth’ Scenario

Gaia - Planetary Perspectives

Course Correction Needed Quickly To Avoid Pathway To ‘Hothouse Earth’ Scenario

Pale Blue Dot Anniversary

Imaging & Spectroscopy

Pale Blue Dot Anniversary

Ice Planet Recon: Looking For Avalanches At Mars’ North Pole

Mars

Ice Planet Recon: Looking For Avalanches At Mars’ North Pole

Not Earth-like Yet Temperate? More Generic Climate Feedback Configurations Still Allow Temperate Climates in Habitable Zone Exo-Earth Candidates

Habitable Zones

Not Earth-like Yet Temperate? More Generic Climate Feedback Configurations Still Allow Temperate Climates in Habitable Zone Exo-Earth Candidates

TESS Planets In Known Radial Velocity Cold Jupiter Systems: Hot Super Earth Occurrence Is Enhanced By Cold Jupiters

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

TESS Planets In Known Radial Velocity Cold Jupiter Systems: Hot Super Earth Occurrence Is Enhanced By Cold Jupiters

Studying Bacteria That Live Inside A Damaged Radioactive Nuclear Power Station

Radiation

Studying Bacteria That Live Inside A Damaged Radioactive Nuclear Power Station

Machine Learning Exploration Of Binding Energy Distributions Of H2O At Astrochemically Relevant Dust Grain Surfaces

Astrochemistry

Machine Learning Exploration Of Binding Energy Distributions Of H2O At Astrochemically Relevant Dust Grain Surfaces

Microbiomes Interconnect On A Planetary-scale, New Study Finds

Gaia - Planetary Perspectives

Microbiomes Interconnect On A Planetary-scale, New Study Finds

Wrinkly Rocks May Actually Be A Fossilized Microbial Community

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Wrinkly Rocks May Actually Be A Fossilized Microbial Community

Cheops Discovers Late Bloomer Planet From Another Era

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Cheops Discovers Late Bloomer Planet From Another Era

Cold And Eccentric: A High-spectral Resolution View Of 51 Eri b With VLT/HiRISE

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Cold And Eccentric: A High-spectral Resolution View Of 51 Eri b With VLT/HiRISE

Long-Term Evolution of Close-in Sub-Neptunes and Outer Planetary Embryos: Atmospheric Mass Loss and Origin of Planets Inside and Outside the Radius Gap

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets

Long-Term Evolution of Close-in Sub-Neptunes and Outer Planetary Embryos: Atmospheric Mass Loss and Origin of Planets Inside and Outside the Radius Gap

Organic Acid Chemistry in ISM: Detection of Formic Acid and its Prebiotic Chemistry in Hot Core G358.93−0.03 MM1

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Organic Acid Chemistry in ISM: Detection of Formic Acid and its Prebiotic Chemistry in Hot Core G358.93−0.03 MM1