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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence for long-ago CO2 atmosphere on Mars NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity exploring Mount Sharp

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence for long-ago CO2 atmosphere on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered minerals that indicate Mars once had a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere capable of supporting liquid water.

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’ Artist's illustration of a rectangular box floating in space with the curve of the earth visible below. It is emitting a red laser beam

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’

Student-designed CubeSat aims to increase speed, security of space-to-ground communications

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays Artist illustration of a tubular spacecraft in space, with wings extending out from both sides

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays

Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe

What NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has discovered in its first five years looping the sun Parker Solar Probe

What NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has discovered in its first five years looping the sun

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover takes a selfie on Mars

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud

Conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable for emergence of microscopic life

The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern, and we finally know why Topo-like map colored by land/ocean from the USGS

The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern, and we finally know why

UChicago research offers first concrete explanation for difference, and show it is getting even stormier over time

James Webb Space telescope reveals a faraway planet’s band of clouds Exoplanet

James Webb Space telescope reveals a faraway planet’s band of clouds

New measurements paint detailed portrait of an exoplanet’s atmosphere

Scientists announce first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope Artist rendering of the first CO2 planet

Scientists announce first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope

First unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide ushers in a new era of exoplanet science

Meteorite provides record of asteroids ‘spitting out’ pebbles Bennu

Meteorite provides record of asteroids ‘spitting out’ pebbles

Field Museum, UChicago scientists explain strange behavior seen in 2019 on Bennu asteroid

NASA’s new flagship telescope just released its beautiful first images of the universe NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula

NASA’s new flagship telescope just released its beautiful first images of the universe

Nebulas, galaxy clusters among first batch of images from James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble