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Curiosity Finds Most Diverse Organics Yet on Mars in First-Ever Wet-Chemistry Test

The discovery strengthens evidence that ancient Mars was habitable without proving past life.

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

New Model Shows Salty Europa Ice Could Sink, Ferrying Nutrients to Its Hidden Ocean

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

Titan May Lack a Global Ocean, Cassini Reanalysis Points to a Slushy Interior With Isolated Water Pockets

Peer-Reviewed Study Links Europa’s ‘Spider’ to Brine Eruptions Like Earth’s Lake Stars

Early JWST Campaign Finds Stellar Noise Hindering TRAPPIST-1e Atmosphere Test

Perseverance Links Jezero’s White Clays to Rainfall on Ancient Mars

Yellowstone Quake Swarm Briefly Rewired a Deep Aquifer’s Chemistry and Microbes

Study Finds Subsurface Oceans Could Boil Inside Small Icy Moons

Study Finds Enceladus’ Heat Loss Matches Tidal Input, Indicating a Long-Lived Ocean

Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains Reveal Ocean-Derived Complex Organics

JWST Narrows TRAPPIST-1e’s Atmosphere, Pointing to Nitrogen-Rich Air

Ionic Liquids Emerge as Candidate Habitats on Water-Scarce Worlds

Cosmic Rays Could Power Life on Europa, Enceladus and Mars, Studies Find

Deepest Chemosynthetic Ecosystems Discovered More Than 31,000 Feet Below Pacific Surface