A new study takes a look at how the presence of a surface can affect an exoplanets atmosphere, giving astrobiologists a way to study exoplanet surfaces without having to “see” them directly.

We could do it with the James Webb Space Telescope—but we’d also need to return to the unfiltered curiosity we had as teenagers.

Great, new paper discussing the origin of life and comparing Earth and Mars, see blog:

The environmental setting makes all the difference.

How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history.

After the launch of Tiangong space station’s core module in April, China took on its next challenge: send astronauts to live there.

The crew of Shenzhou-12 successfully docked at Tiangong this week, and will stay on board for 3 months.

First astronauts enter China’s Tiangong space station.

The three took up residence in the core module hours after the Shenzhou 12 launch craft lifted off from the Gobi Desert.

The first astronauts for China’s new space station blasted off Thursday for the country’s longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power.

Perseverance, NASA’s rover that landed on Mars in February, is looking for signs of ancient microbial life and determining if the Red Planet is habitable for humans.

From Mariner 4 to Curiosity, these historical missions have shaped our understanding of the Red Planet.