Mars
Mars Lost an Ocean's Worth of Water 
A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii.
Astrochemistry
Reproducing the Building Blocks of Life in Laboratory
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
Titan
Life Not As We Know It Is Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan
A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers.
Astrochemistry
Environment Around Black Hole Protects Organic Chemicals
A research team led by Shuro Takano at NAOJ and Taku Nakajima at Nagoya University observed the spiral galaxy M77 with ALMA and discovered that organic molecules are concentrated in a region surrounding a supermassive black hole at its center.
Astrochemistry
Complex Organics in the Inner Regions of Solar-type Protostars
The high abundances of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) with respect to methanol, the most abundant COM, detected towards low-mass protostars, tend to be underpredicted by astrochemical models.
Astrochemistry
Oxygen Enrichment in Carbon-rich Planetary Nebulae
We studied the relation between the chemical composition and the type of dust present in a group of 20 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) that have high quality optical and infrared spectra.
Radiation
Shielding From The Solar Wind: Implications for Habitability
The onset and nature of the earliest geomagnetic field is important for understanding the evolution of the core, atmosphere and
life on Earth.
Europa
Linking Europa's Plume Activity to Tides, Tectonics, and Liquid Water
Much of the geologic activity preserved on Europa's icy surface has been attributed to tidal deformation, mainly due to Europa's eccentric orbit.
Astrochemistry
Shedding Light on the Formation of the Pre-biotic Molecule Formamide with ASAI
Formamide (NH2CHO) has been proposed as a pre-biotic precursor with a key role in the emergence of life on Earth. While this molecule has been observed in space, most of its detections correspond to high-mass star-forming regions.
Astrogeology
Collisions of Small ice Particles Under Microgravity Conditions
Understanding the collisional properties of ice is important for understanding both the early stages of planet formation and the evolution of planetary ring systems.
Extrasolar Planets
A New Chemical Scheme to Study Carbon-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres
Atmospheres with a high C/O ratio are expected to contain an important quantity of hydrocarbons, including heavy molecules (with more than 2 carbon atoms).
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- 11 Mar: Connecting Space with International Security and Stability
- 15 Mar: 58th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner
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- 15 Mar: User Workshop for Mars ChemCam/LIBS Data at LPSC
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