Keith Cowing

We also bid adieu to WASP-126 c, which is now listed as a False Positive Planet based on a published refutation . Its data remain on the WASP-126 System Overview page and have been removed from the Planetary Systems tables.

In the central molecular zone (CMZ) environment, shocks play a key role in both triggering star formation and providing chemical enrichment. The Sgr B2 complex is a prime template, hosting several massive protoclusters (N, M, and S) and the northern G+0.693 cloud, which exhibits shock-induced prestellar signatures.

Deep sea microorganisms remain largely inaccessible because existing sampling and cultivation methods fail to preserve native high-pressure microenvironments from seafloor to laboratory.

Microbial symbiosis drives the functional and phylogenomic diversification of life on Earth yet remains underexplored because of culturing challenges.

[NASA]. Equipped with four instruments each, the three SkyFall Mars helicopters helicopters will follow in the footsteps of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a technology demonstrator that flew 72 times over nearly three years, proving that powered, controlled flight is possible in the rarefied Martian atmosphere.

High-resolution imaging is widely used to constrain false-positive scenarios in exoplanet validation, but it is a finite follow-up resource that reaches only a subset of candidates, and its population-level impact on validation outcomes has not been quantified through controlled removal experiments.

[astro-ph.EP] In this study, we seek to improve our understanding of the competing roles of disk-driven and planet-planet dynamical migration in sculpting planetary system architecture in the inner ≲1.5 au of protoplanetary disks.

[NASA Exoplanet Archive] We're excited to announce that an AI-powered assistant that answers natural-language questions about exoplanets using archive data, is now in open beta.

Editor's note: As I mentioned in an earlier post last month, the prime reason for being at AdGradCon – Astrobiology Graduate Conference – ( https://abgradcon.org ) is to focus on – AbGradCon.

This image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's now-empty lander, the Challenger Memorial Station, at Meridiani Planum, Mars.