Database Of Space Life Science Investigations And Bioinformatics Of...
Biological experiments performed in space crafts like space stations, space shuttles, and recoverable satellites has enabled extensive spaceflight life investigations (SLIs). In particular, SLIs have...
View ArticleSETI Institute Employs SETI Ellipsoid Technique for Searching for Signals...
In a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center and the University of Washington reported an exciting development for the...
View Articlenuance: Efficient Detection Of Planets Transiting Active Stars
The detection of planetary transits in the light curves of active stars, featuring correlated noise in the form of stellar variability, remains a challenge. Depending on the noise characteristics, we...
View ArticleHPIC: The Habitable Worlds Observatory Preliminary Input Catalog
The Habitable Worlds Observatory Preliminary Input Catalog (HPIC) is a list of ~13,000 nearby bright stars that will be potential targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) in its search for...
View ArticleBetter Offworld Droid Navigation: nuance: WayFASTER: a Self-Supervised...
Accurate and robust navigation in unstructured environments requires fusing data from multiple sensors. Such fusion ensures that the robot is better aware of its surroundings, including areas of the...
View ArticleSETI: Finding The ET Signal From The Cosmic Noise
This paper highlights a methodological approach designed to enhance the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by hypothesizing that a transmission technosignature would likely have two...
View ArticleReduced-resolution Beamforming: Lowering The Computational Cost For Pulsar...
In radio astronomy, the science output of a telescope is often limited by computational resources. This is especially true for transient and technosignature surveys that need to search high-resolution...
View ArticleHYACINTH: HYdrogen And Carbon chemistry In The INTerstellar Medium In Hydro...
Aims. We present a new sub-grid model, HYACINTH — HYdrogen And Carbon chemistry in the INTerstellar medium in Hydro simulations, for computing the non-equilibrium abundances of H2 and its carbon-based...
View ArticleEnabling Data Discovery With The Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard
As scientific investigations increasingly adopt Open Science practices, reuse of data becomes paramount. However, despite decades of progress in internet search tools, finding relevant astrobiology...
View ArticleNASA Open Science For Life In Space: The RadLab Portal / RadLab Data API
Dive into the cosmic realm with NASA OSDR’s newest RadLab app. Explore radiation data from multiple space agencies, track the total dose rate in the South Atlantic Anomaly at specific timepoints, and...
View ArticleCreating A Digital Twin Of A Planet’s Weather: Earth
New ‘digital twin’ Earth technology could help predict water-based natural disasters before they strike Astrobiology.com editor’s note: For the past several decades NASA has often talked about the...
View ArticleA Gap In The Densities Of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs: Rigorous...
Using mass-radius-composition models, small planets (R≲2R⊕) are typically classified into three types: iron-rich, nominally Earth-like, and those with solid/liquid water and/or atmosphere. These...
View ArticleData Availability And Requirements Relevant For The Ariel Space Mission And...
The goal of this white paper is to provide a snapshot of the data availability and data needs primarily for the Ariel space mission, but also for related atmospheric studies of exoplanets and brown...
View ArticleNASA Planetary Data System Mars Odyssey Orbiter Data Release 87
The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 87 of data from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products nominally covering the time period July 1,...
View ArticleScience Autonomy for Ocean Worlds Astrobiology: A Perspective
Astrobiology missions to ocean worlds in our solar system must overcome both scientific and technological challenges due to extreme temperature and radiation conditions, long communication times, and...
View ArticleIs Artificial Intelligence The Great Filter That Makes Advanced Technical...
This study examines the hypothesis that the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), culminating in the emergence of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), could act as a “Great Filter” that is...
View ArticleNASA GeneLab New Workflows for Processing Microarray Data
Microarray technology enables simultaneous analysis of thousands of genes, facilitating understanding of complex diseases and molecular responses to environmental factors such as microgravity in space...
View ArticleInterview With CBC About The Voyager 1 Interstellar Software Repair
Editor’s note: I just spoke with CBC News in Ottawa, Canada about the recent software repair conducted from Earth onboard the Voyager 1 interstellar space probe. [Interview Audio] The post Interview...
View ArticleEarth Life Biodiversity: Vast DNA Tree Of life For Flowering Plants Revealed
The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three...
View ArticleCan AI Understand Our Universe? Test of Fine-Tuning GPT by Astrophysical Data
ChatGPT has been the most talked-about concept in recent months, captivating both professionals and the general public alike, and has sparked discussions about the changes that artificial intelligence...
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