The White House announced a plan to cancel over 50 #space missions as part of a devastating 46% cut to #NASA #science.

The proposal would likely eliminate thousands of jobs at an agency that has just launched astronauts to the #Moon for the first time in decades, and dozens of other space missions would see their operations reduced or slowly wound down to a halt.

The following missions are to be cancelled:

1. The Habitable Worlds Observatory being built to search for #life on dozens of Earth-like planets beyond our Solar System while addressing fundamental questions about our #Universe.

2. OSIRIS-APEX capitalizes on the exceptionally rare 2029 Earth flyby of the potentially hazardous #asteroid #Apophis to advance planetary defense strategies and reveal how Earth’s #gravity alters an asteroid’s surface and interior.

3. The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will deliberately search for signs of life on #Mars by analyzing the composition of samples collected from as deep as 2 meters below the surface.

4. The DAVINCI mission is an atmospheric probe that will be deployed to our sister planet, #Venus, and provide the first detailed measurements of the composition and chemistry of its #atmosphere.

5. Initially focusing on #Jupiter’s interior, atmosphere, and aurora, #Juno is already orbiting Jupiter and has expanded during its extended mission to be a full system explorer capable of investigating the Galilean satellites, rings, inner moons, radiation belts, and boundaries of Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

6. VERITAS will create unprecedented, global, high-resolution datasets of Venus designed to answer a fundamental question for rocky #planets: how did Earth and her twin Venus evolve into two entirely different examples of planetary #habitability?

https://www.planetary.org/articles/meet-the-people-behind-nasas-endangered-missions

Immersion in a hot toxic soup

From humans, wildlife and invertebrates: Simultaneous exposure of toxins and climate harms likely to cause reduced fertility

An " ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures."

"The chemicals are ubiquitous in consumer goods, so humans are often regularly exposed."

“There is enough evidence in both areas to act to reduce our impact on the planet...The solution to the systemic problems would involve reining in climate change and reducing the use of toxic chemicals." >>

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study
#biodiversity #immersion #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #toxins #plastic #ForeverChemicals #pollution #WesternCountries #harm #ToxicChemicals #Pfas #organochlorines #pyrethroids #Phthalates #ConsumerGoods #ClimateHarms #habitability #HealthHazards

Study finds water is essential for stable carbon cycles on exoplanets

📰 Original title: Exoplanets struggle to sustain carbon cycles without water

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

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#astronomy #exoplanets #carboncycle #habitability

Study finds water is essential for stable carbon cycles on exoplanets

📰 Original title: Exoplanets struggle to sustain carbon cycles without water

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#astronomy #exoplanets #carboncycle #habitability

Desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host #life.

This is because an Earth-sized #planet needs at least 20 to 50% of the #water in #Earth's #oceans to maintain a critical natural cycle that keeps water on the surface.

Planetary #habitability hinges on the geologic #carbon cycle—a water-driven process that exchanges carbon between the #atmosphere and interior over millions of years, stabilizing surface temperatures.

Carbon dioxide, which comes from #volcanoes in a natural system, accumulates in the atmosphere before falling back to Earth dissolved in rainwater.

Rain erodes and chemically reacts with rocks on Earth's surface and runoff transports carbon to the ocean, where it sinks to the seafloor.

Plate tectonics drives carbon-rich oceanic plates below continental land and millions of years later, carbon resurfaces as mountains form.

However, if water levels drop too low for rainfall, carbon removal—from weathering—can't keep up with emissions from volcanic eruptions and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere spike, trapping water.

Rising temperatures evaporate the remaining surface water, initiating runaway warming that makes the planet too hot to support life.

That unfortunately makes arid planets, with little water and rainfall, within habitable zones unlikely to be good candidates for life.

#astronomy #astrobiology #exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-planets-life-scientists-previously-thought.html

Paper by White-Gianella et al. (2026):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa

Freedom of movement and freedom to stay
Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy

* " As the habitable areas of the Earth shrink under climate change and as many governments around the world adopt measures to deport migrants and refugees, it is time to re-examine our traditional notion of freedom. In the Western tradition, freedom is generally understood in relation to space: it is the freedom of movement, and the freedom not to be obstructed in one's movement by the state or anyone else. In The Freedom to Stay, von Redecker puts forward the radical argument that we should think of freedom in temporal rather than spatial terms."
The Freedom to Stay. Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-freedom-to-stay--9781509574292

* "The core of fascism is an unleashed logic of property. Its counterparts are not people, but things; its enemies are not opponents, but thieves."

The New Fascism. Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy, Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240
#property #liberalism #NewFascism #EcologicalFreedom #ClimateCrisis #habitability #RightToStay #entitlement #destruction #TemporalLiteracy #mobility #freedom #theory #books

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

"Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again "

"The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon
#destruction #domicide #habitability #civilians #war #violence #MassDestruction

Earth’s habitability linked to precise oxygen levels during core formation

📰 Original title: Scientists discover the “Goldilocks” secret behind life on Earth

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#science #earth #planetaryscience #habitability

Earth’s habitability linked to precise oxygen levels during core formation

📰 Original title: Scientists discover the “Goldilocks” secret behind life on Earth

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/earths-habitability-linked-to-precise-oxygen-levels-during-core-formation/?redirpost=6d320563-a971-4e22-8ea0-67560b9b4d74

#science #earth #planetaryscience #habitability