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Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find

Ocean Worlds

Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find

The Direct Mid-Infrared Detectability of Habitable-zone Exoplanets Around Nearby Stars

Habitable Zones & Global Climate

The Direct Mid-Infrared Detectability of Habitable-zone Exoplanets Around Nearby Stars

Two Temperate Earth-mass Planets Orbiting The Nearby Star GJ1002

Habitable Zones & Global Climate

Two Temperate Earth-mass Planets Orbiting The Nearby Star GJ1002

Discovery Of Interstellar NC4NH+: Dicyanopolyynes Are Indeed Abundant In Space

Astrochemistry

Discovery Of Interstellar NC4NH+: Dicyanopolyynes Are Indeed Abundant In Space

Laboratory Rotational Spectroscopy And Astronomical Search Of Ethynyl Substituted Naphthalene

Astrochemistry

Laboratory Rotational Spectroscopy And Astronomical Search Of Ethynyl Substituted Naphthalene

Imaging Venus’ Surface at Night in the Near-IR From Above Its Clouds

Venus

Imaging Venus’ Surface at Night in the Near-IR From Above Its Clouds

Spectroscopic Determination Of C, N, and O Abundances Of Solar-Analog Stars Based On The Lines Of Hydride Molecules

Astrochemistry

Spectroscopic Determination Of C, N, and O Abundances Of Solar-Analog Stars Based On The Lines Of Hydride Molecules

We Drink Good 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Water On Earth

Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology

We Drink Good 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Water On Earth

Away Team Mission On Earth: Mapping Fungal Networks On Earth’s Most Remote Island

Field Reports & Away Teams

Away Team Mission On Earth: Mapping Fungal Networks On Earth’s Most Remote Island

Assessing The Nucleotide-Level Impact Of Spaceflight Stress Using RNA-Sequencing Data

Genomics and Cell Biology

Assessing The Nucleotide-Level Impact Of Spaceflight Stress Using RNA-Sequencing Data

Early Selection Of The Amino Acid Alphabet Was Adaptively Shaped By Biophysical Constraints Of Foldability

Biochemistry

Early Selection Of The Amino Acid Alphabet Was Adaptively Shaped By Biophysical Constraints Of Foldability

Terminator Habitability: The Case For Limited Water Availability on M-dwarf Planets

Extrasolar Planets

Terminator Habitability: The Case For Limited Water Availability on M-dwarf Planets

A Green Bank Telescope Search For Narrowband Technosignatures Between 1.1-1.9 GHz During 12 Kepler Planetary Transits

SETI & Technosignatures

A Green Bank Telescope Search For Narrowband Technosignatures Between 1.1-1.9 GHz During 12 Kepler Planetary Transits

Model Shows How Intelligent-like Behavior Can Emerge From Non-living Agents

Data - Apps - AI - Cybernetics

Model Shows How Intelligent-like Behavior Can Emerge From Non-living Agents

Earth’s Inner Core May Be Oxygen-Rich

Astrochemistry

Earth’s Inner Core May Be Oxygen-Rich