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The Teledyne Marine-Rutgers University Sentinel Redwing autonomous underwater vehicle is embarking on an underwater journey that could be a world first: circumnavigating the globe. -- Teledyne Marine

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An Autonomous Robotic Glider Will Circle And Explore Our Ocean Planet

by Keith CowingOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Editor’s note: When we start to mount Astrobiology missions to explore ocean worlds we’ll need ways for our robotic submersibles to observe and interact with whatever life forms they may […]

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astronomy & Telescopes, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures

SETI Institute Accelerates the Search for Life Beyond Earth with NVIDIA IGX Thor

by Keith CowingOctober 28, 2025October 29, 2025

The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in […]

For the second stage of our analysis pipeline, outputs were further evaluated using a livability index L (scaled between 0 and 1). Among the 51 Mars-positive samples, the mean livability index was 0.417, with scores clustering at a midrange band of 0.31-0.48 (Table 5). These results suggest that most images were neutrally classified with the model neither stating high nor low livability rates across the tested data. Dust warnings were found to be common, with twenty-four samples flagged as “Warning” , twenty-five as “Caution” , and two as “Severe” (Table 6). -- eartharxiv.org

Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Desert Worlds, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Sample Return, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors

A Computer Vision Framework For Estimating Surface Habitability From Mars Using Convolutional Analysis

by Keith CowingOctober 28, 2025October 28, 2025

Identifying signs of life in extraterrestrial environments is one of the growing challenges in planetary science. Conventional approaches of detecting habitability rely heavily on direct contact with biosignatures or geological […]

Figure reproduced from H. Toru Shay et al. (2025). The detected inventory of TMC–1 molecular species and their column densities is converted into numerical vectors with the VICGAE model. The vectorized strings and the corresponding column densities are then used to train a machine learning regressor. Through learning the relationship between vectorized molecular structures and their column densities, the model is optimized to find the best fit. Once trained, the best-fit model can predict column densities for new molecules and be used to identify potential detection targets in TMC–1. -- The Astrophysical Journal

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report

Bridging Machine Learning and Spectroscopy: A New Analysis for Astrochemical Target Selection

by Keith CowingOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025

In the last few years, several approaches have used machine learning to reproduce the inventory and column densities of interstellar molecular sources.

Visual characteristics observed according to treatment, polygon distribution, sand/clay ratio, primary/secondary desiccations ratio, shapes (type and size), and color on the top of the polygonal forms. A = abiotic control; C = cyanobacteria; D = diatoms; G = green algae; M = mixed; B = biotic strains; 1 = low biomass; 2 = high biomass.

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Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Detection of Biogenicity Using Laboratory Specimens of Biologically and Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in a Controlled Experiment

by Keith CowingOctober 24, 2025October 25, 2025

The search for traces of life can be based on the detection of specific signatures produced by microorganisms on sedimentary rocks.

A replacement has now been found for the underwater vehicle Ran, which contributed to a wealth of new knowledge about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, among other things. Ran II will be delivered in just over a year, in the winter of 2026/2027. Credit Filip Stedt

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Replacement Found For The Lost Underwater Vehicle Ran

by Keith CowingOctober 17, 2025

The deal is done for the new underwater vehicle that will replace Ran, the submarine that was lost under a glacier in Antarctica in 2024. A large donation means that […]

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Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I — Workshop and Overview

by Keith CowingOctober 14, 2025October 14, 2025

Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimensional […]

Projected view of Bennu, generated with a ∼20,000-facet downsampled shape model, as seen from Earth on 15 September 2005 (phase angle of 61.9◦). -- astro-ph.EP

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrogeology, Comets and Asteroids, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report

An Open-Access Web Tool for Light Curve Simulation and Analysis of Small Solar System Objects

by Keith CowingOctober 12, 2025October 12, 2025

We present a web-based application designed to simulate rotational light curves of small airless Solar System bodies under user-defined geometrical and physical conditions.

Credit Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Tricorder Tech: AI Matches Human Experts In Classifying Microscopic Organisms

by Keith CowingOctober 6, 2025January 4, 2026

Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]

Average Grad-CAM results for both study areas against the backdrop of the topography Satellite Navigation -- Satellite Navigation

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Status Report

AI-enhanced Planetary Meteorology: Deep Learning Reveals Hidden Details In Earth’s Atmosphere

by Keith CowingSeptember 20, 2025September 20, 2025

Predicting local weather extremes remains one of the greatest hurdles in meteorology, which requires high-resolution, reliable humidity data. A new study unveils a breakthrough: the first high-resolution Global Navigation Satellite […]

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An Autonomous Robotic Glider Will Circle And Explore Our Ocean Planet

SETI Institute Accelerates the Search for Life Beyond Earth with NVIDIA IGX Thor

A Computer Vision Framework For Estimating Surface Habitability From Mars Using Convolutional Analysis

Bridging Machine Learning and Spectroscopy: A New Analysis for Astrochemical Target Selection

Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Detection of Biogenicity Using Laboratory Specimens of Biologically and Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in a Controlled Experiment

Replacement Found For The Lost Underwater Vehicle Ran

Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I — Workshop and Overview

An Open-Access Web Tool for Light Curve Simulation and Analysis of Small Solar System Objects

Tricorder Tech: AI Matches Human Experts In Classifying Microscopic Organisms

AI-enhanced Planetary Meteorology: Deep Learning Reveals Hidden Details In Earth’s Atmosphere

JWST Studies Of Planet-shattering Collisions

Ancient Seas Reveal Times When The Earth Rapidly Shifted Relative To Its Axis

Catalog Of Mitochondria Across Life’s Family Tree Unearths New Roles For The Cell’s Powerhouse

How A Desert Alga Helps Us Understand Plants’ Adaptability To Extreme Environmental Conditions

Life On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Would Be Possible