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National Academies Sets Science-First Blueprint for Human Mars Missions

NASA requested the blueprint to set science goals ahead of program decisions.

‘Fire Amoeba’ Sets Eukaryotic Heat Record at 63°C

AI Detects Chemical Signatures of Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks

Lab Experiments Show Sub‑Neptunes Can Make Their Own Water

Perseverance Spots Iron–Nickel–Rich Rock on Mars, Raising Meteorite Suspicion

AI-Driven Chemical Analysis Finds Biosignatures in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks, Traces of Early Photosynthesis

Scientists Detect Habitable-Zone ‘Super‑Earth’ GJ 251 c Just 18 Light‑Years Away

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

JWST Spots Tentative Signs of an Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e

UC Santa Cruz Model Recasts Sub‑Neptune ‘Steam Worlds’ With Colder, Smaller Interiors

Heterogeneous Robot Team Maps 235-Meter Lava Tube, Revealing Technical Hurdles for Moon and Mars

Webb Telescope Rules Out Atmosphere on Earth-Sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

Mars Rover’s ‘Helmet’ Rock, Horneflya, Is Almost Entirely Made of Spherules

Curiosity Rover Reveals Coral-Like Rock Paposo as Ancient Mineral Vein

Perseverance Returns Sharpest 360° Panorama From Mars’s Falbreen Site

Lab Simulations Show Trapped Vapor Cracks Ice to Propel Cryovolcanism on Europa and Enceladus

ALMA Detects 17 Complex Organic Molecules in V883 Orionis Protoplanetary Disk

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging