The search for extrasolar life is a multidisiplinary endeavor. How can astronomers use current understandings of pre-cellular biology to inform what it means for a planet to be “habitable”?
Today’s authors compare small K-dwarf and M-dwarf planetary climates!
What are some relationships between Saturn, one of our brightest night-sky objects, and cultures around the world?
This bite reports a serendipitous discovery of what is possibly the largest protoplanetary disk, which has an interesting shape.
Today’s paper takes a look at circumstellar disks’ chemistries, and addresses how their chemical composition can be impacted by their host stars.
Venus may be quite similar in size and mass as Earth, but its surface conditions could not be any more different! Can a modern space telescope like JWST identify the difference between an exoEarth and an exoVenus?