Tiny Salt Crevices Could Act As Miniature "Greenhouses" For Martian Microbes
Reported by Universe Today
We’ve been searching for life on Mars for a long time now, but so far we’ve come up empty. The fundamental problem is a Catch-22 of two of the key ingredients for life. Life as we know it needs liquid water and reasonable temperatures, both of which ar...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:26 +0000
NASA Names Two Artemis II Astronauts to Emeritus Program
Reported by NASA
Following their landmark Artemis II mission earlier this year, distinguished NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman are transitioning in September to emeritus status at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. In an emeritus role, individual...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:24 +0000
BepiColombo Successfully Begins Its Final Descent To Mercury
Reported by Universe Today
The latest mission to the innermost planet in the solar system hit a milestone last week. After an eight year journey, BepiColombo finally separated from its propulsion stage to set itself up for an orbital insertion to Mercury. Taking place on September 3...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:13 +0000
Peptides in Venus’ clouds could form life-giving shapes
Reported by Space | EarthSky
A new study from MIT shows that peptides in Venus' clouds could survive in the sulfuric acid droplets and fold into the shapes need for biological life.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:40 +0000
Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Spot the First Black Holes
Reported by Universe Today
A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first stars ignited - literally the “let there be light” moment for the universe. Now known to astronomers as Population III, or Pop III, stars, these giants were very different from the stars we know...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:28 +0000
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4995-5001: 5,000 (Martian) Days on Mars
Reported by NASA
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 The span of sols spanned by this blog post is noteworthy in several ways. First, Curiosity became a world-class (for Mars at least) m...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:20 +0000