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    Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary subject with the aim to understand the origins, evolution and extent of life in the Universe.

    Image: James Tuttle Keane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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    In this Collection, we bring together recent work, and invite further contributions, on the nature and characteristics of the Martian surface, the processes at play, and the environmental conditions both in the present-day and in the distant past.

    Image: © [M] Paola Iamunno / Getty Images / iStock
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    The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.

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    This Collection gathers all the research published in the Nature Portfolio journals on the analysis of the sample from carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu returned by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA spacecraft Hayabusa2 in December 2020, together with related Commentary pieces.

    Image: Yamaguchi, A. et al. Nat Astron (2023)

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    There is no escaping light pollution on Earth — not on the seafloor or at the poles. Even above us, low-Earth orbit is crowded with artificial satellites and space debris that reflect light and spoil Hubble Space Telescope images (pictured).

    Image: NASA/Kruk et al.

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    Recent missions to the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu have revealed that the surfaces of asteroids can be actively shaped by a variety of geological processes.

    Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

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    Dwarf galaxies — galaxies of mass less than roughly a billion solar masses — have emerged as key laboratories for testing a number of open questions in astrophysics, including the formation of the first stars and the chemical enrichment of the Universe, the growth of galaxies and of the black holes within them, and the existence and properties of dark matter.

    Image: NASA/ ESA/ STScI (A. Aloisi)

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    We present this Collection of research, review and comment from Nature Research to celebrate the award of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our Galaxy”.

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    Close to the end of its mission, the Dawn spacecraft performed high resolution observations of Occator crater at Ceres in order to study its bright points (faculae) at unprecedented detail. These observations establish Ceres as an ocean world.

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI/LPI

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    The Kavli Prize is awarded by a partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the Kavli Foundation.

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    Recent years have been an exciting time to unravel the mysteries of planetary interiors. A number of ongoing international space missions, ever evolving new technologies and numerical methods, and re-analysis of existing data are allowing us to gain new insights on the internal structures of planetary bodies.

    Image: From closest to furthest (or right to left) respectively: Jupiter (Juno perijove 6, Credit:NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran); Saturn during the great storm of 2010–2011 (Cassini, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute); Uranus and Neptune (Hubble, Credits: NASA/ESA/A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong and A. Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)).

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    We present this Collection of research, review and comment from Nature Research to celebrate the award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. Together, these discoveries have changed the way we view the Universe, and our place within it.

    Image: Springer Nature/The Nobel Foundation/Imagesource