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Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Photo by commander Eugene A. Cernan.
The Loss of Zinc on the MoonJan. 16, 2020
An artist’s illustration of TOI-1338b and its two host stars.
Tatooine WorldsJan. 15, 2020
The 71st International Astronautical Congress will be held in Dubai, UAE, from October 21-25, 2020.
Call for Abstracts: 71st International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, UAEJan. 14, 2020
Artist impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet.
Gas Dynamics in Protoplanetary DisksJan. 14, 2020
Artist's illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will perform multiple flybys of the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon.
Tidal Heating on Icy MoonsJan. 13, 2020
The Tonian Period is the earliest of the Neoproterozoic Era and lasted from approximately 1 billion to 720 million years ago. The Tonian occurred between the Stenian Period of the Mesoproterozoic Era, and the Cryogenian Period of the Neoproterozoic Era.
Tonian Transitions in Earth's Marine BiosphereJan. 9, 2020
Periods of increased rates of impacts could have instigated a dramatic shift in climate and environment that helped spur the formation of life on Earth.
Primordial Organic Matter in the Zag MeteoriteJan. 8, 2020
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone WorldJan. 7, 2020
Shimmering hot waters of a hydrothermal vent at the Von Damm vent field, Carribean Sea, Mid-Cayman RIse. Numerous shrimp are seen in the image.
Feeding Chemosynthetic Microorganisms around Hydrothermal VentsJan. 7, 2020
Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. Crescents are other planets in the system, and the red sphere is the M-dwarf star around which the exoplanets orbit.
New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with OxygenJan. 6, 2020
Extremophiles, such as the thermophiles that give the microbial mats such vivid colors in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, are a hot topic of study amongst astrobiologists in the UK.
Insight into Archaea-Virus InteractionsJan. 6, 2020
Del Genio, second to the left, and colleagues of the NASA ROCKE-3D NExSS team at their first team meeting at GISS in 2015.
Using Climate Science on Earth to Understand Planets Beyond EarthJan. 3, 2020
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