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Nature Astronomy, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02381-x In hyperarid environments, life can obtain water through salts that draw moisture from the atmosphere. These salts, then, should be a focus of searches for life on Mars. The experiments performed by
Nature Astronomy, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02373-x Serpentinization — the metamorphism of rocks involving large amounts of water — includes many different aspects linked to habitability and offers a more reliable indicator of habitable conditions in the Solar System
Nature Astronomy, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02376-8 Beneath the superficial diversity and complexity of galaxy morphology in our local Universe, galaxies show underlying simplicity and have universally bimodal distributions of normalized specific angular momentum of stars, revealed by MaNGA
Nature Astronomy, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02370-0 The landscape of potential hills and valleys in the Universe can be discerned by the motion of galaxies towards mass concentrations and away from voids. Space can be segmented into ‘basins of
GOES-16 Visible imagery (0.64 µm) from Mesoscale Sector 1, 1256-1415 UTC on 26 September (Click to enlarge) GOES-16 Visible imagery (Band 2, 0.64 µm) from Mesoscale Sector 1, above, show the evolution of Helene for about 90 minutes shortly after
A positively-tilted upper-level trough generated severe thunderstorms across the eastern U.S. recently. The associated surface low-pressure system with attendant cold front spawned numerous severe storms from Mississippi to Ohio to Virigina. The LightningCast model picked up on this developing convection,