Prebiotic chemical evolution that led to the emergence of life on primitive Earth is interlinked
with the delivery of organic material through the impact of comets, asteroids and meteorites …

The search for the chemical origins of life represents a long-standing and continuously
debated enigma. Despite its exceptional complexity, in the last decades the field has …

A new gas gun configuration has been developed at the Centre for Astrophysics and
Planetary Science, University of Kent, to produce vertical impacts at up to 2 km s− 1. The …

Exploration of the structural stability of the single and poly‐crystalline materials of solid‐state
at high temperature and pressure is one of the basic research topics in the materials science …

This paper considers how space missions that fly through the plumes known, or suspected,
to erupt naturally from some icy ocean worlds (IOW), such as Enceladus, or that aim to …

Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars' two moons, is not considered a location where extant
or extinct life may exist. However, its close proximity to Mars means it could be a repository …