Planets: A Modest Proposal
When is a planet a planet? Always, whether it's a hecto-planet or a milli-planet
Life, Unbounded
Discussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology
Astrobiology Roundup: Giant Viruses, Ceres Landslides and Planet Nine
From accordion genomes to icy flows and binary trans-Neptunian objects
New Evidence for Hydrothermal Havens in Enceladus
Spurting out molecular hydrogen and water, the icy moon Enceladus looks even tastier in the search for life
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Mars: As You've Never Seen It Before [Video]
An astonishing rendering of 12 years of orbital images brings the planet to life
The Real Expanse
Human colonization of space would be terrifyingly hard, and that's the best thing about it
Astrobiology Roundup: Dust Traps, Juno, Mars Lava and more
What's happening in the universe?
Tiny, Tiny TRAPPIST-1
The 7-planet system of TRAPPIST-1 is remarkable in many ways, including its size
Why I Love AI
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to show us new ways to think about the natural world
Churchill the Astrobiologist?
Newly released writings by Winston Churchill on life in the universe reinforce how keenly scientific his thinking was
Ancient Meteorites Were Different
Types of rocky meteorites rare today were abundant 466 million years ago
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