Astrobiology

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Study Proposes Titan Formed From Two-Moon Merger, Tying Event to Saturn’s Young Rings

Computer simulations accepted for publication link a Titan moon merger to recent ring formation, offering predictions Dragonfly can test.

Rocky Outer Planet in LHS 1903 System Upends Planet-Formation Models

SPHEREx Detects Late Outburst From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, Revealing Organic Molecules

Musk Promotes 'Moonbase Alpha' Plan for Lunar Mass Driver to Build and Launch AI Satellites

Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

JPL Study Maps Propulsion Paths to Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in Decades

NASA-Led Study Finds Nonbiological Sources Fall Short for Curiosity’s Mars Organics

Bennu Samples Show Amino Acids Likely Formed in Icy, Radioactive Environments

Enceladus Powers Planet-Scale Alfvén Wings Reaching Over 500,000 Kilometers

Study Finds Planetary Oxygen at Birth Controls Life-Critical Phosphorus and Nitrogen

New Study Rewinds Curiosity’s Mars Organics to Levels Hard to Explain Geologically

JWST Detects First Extragalactic Methyl Radical in Carbon‑Rich, Dust‑Buried Galaxy

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has About a 4% Chance of Striking the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032

Simulations Put 2024 YR4’s 2032 Lunar-Impact Odds at About 4 Percent

Toxic Martian Salt Unexpectedly Strengthens IISc's Bacteria-Built Space Bricks

Reanalysis of Galileo Data Finds Ammonia on Europa Near Surface Fractures

Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away Around a K-Dwarf

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53