A team of astrophysicists from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) has observed for the first time the fine details of the auroras on Ganymede, the only moon […]
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Upper Atmosphere Dynamics And Drivers Of Volatiles Loss From Terrestrial-type (exo)Planets
Volatile loss from exoplanetary atmospheres and its possible implications for the longevity of habitable surface conditions is a topic of vigorous debate currently.
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Hidden Magma Oceans Could Shield Rocky Exoplanets From Harmful Radiation
Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from dangerous […]
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Tricorder Tech: NASA Goddard Instrument Away Team On Hawaii
Editor’s note: This story is adapted from content originally published on NASA social media accounts in September 2022.
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Born On Mars: Multigenerational Phenotypic Change In Caenorhabditis Elegans Under Martian Analog Gravity And Hypomagnetic Fields
Life on Mars will require organisms to endure sustained exposure to reduced gravity and near-absent planetary magnetism, yet little is known about how these environmental factors may combine to potentially […]
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Uranus And Neptune Might Be Rock Giants
The planets in the Solar System are typically divided into three categories based on their composition: the four terrestrial rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars), followed by the two […]
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How Superstorm Gannon Squeezed Earth’s Plasmasphere To One-fifth Its Size
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs when the Sun releases massive amounts of energy and charged particles toward Earth. These storms are rare, occurring about […]
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission To Mars — Twin UC Berkeley Satellites Will Launch In Early November
The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]
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Impact of a High Magnetic Field on the Orientation of Gravitactic Unicellular Organisms
The gravity-dependent behavior of Paramecium biaurelia and Euglena gracilis have previously been studied on ground and in real microgravity.
![Maximum predicted emission frequency and radio flux density for known exoplanets (triangle symbols; data from [8]). The uncertainties on the predictions are estimated to one order of magnitude for the flux density and a factor of 2-3 for the emission frequency12. The sensitivities for the ground-based (UTR-2, LOFAR, NenuFAR, SKA-Low, VLA, GMRT) and space-based (FARSIDE, LCRT, FARVIEW ) radio telescopes are labeled (for 10 min of integration time and a bandwidth of 24 MHz). The FARVIEW and LCRT sensitivity curves are taken from [19] and [2], respectively. The LuSEE-Night sensitivity curve is averaged over the entire two-year mission and includes post-processing using a LombScargle periodogram (see text for details). The possible detection of τ Boo b from LOFAR23 is shown as a red star. This figure is adapted from [9]. -- astro-ph.IM](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Studying-Exoplanets-in.png?resize=1200%2C720&ssl=1)
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Studying Exoplanets In The Radio From The Moon
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently.