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Juno Measures Hidden Heat Beneath Jupiter’s Moon Io

This detection of strong shallow warming beneath Io could indicate global conductive heat flow or buried cooling lava, pointing to a new remote-sensing method for studying volcanic heat.

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

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Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

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

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

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

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

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8mo ago

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

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Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains Reveal Ocean-Derived Complex Organics

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11mo ago

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

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Ionic Liquids Emerge as Candidate Habitats on Water-Scarce Worlds

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

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

Habitability

Juno Measures Hidden Heat Beneath Jupiter’s Moon Io

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

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

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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

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Habitability