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The 'X-mas Planets' is a collage of computer generated images of potentially habitable worlds created by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) over a section of an image of the De Mairan’s Nebula (Messier 43) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 (NASA)Sept. 17, 2025
Perseverance is positioned to the right of the frame next to Cheyava Falls. The dusty, rocky, reddish surface of Mars fills the rest of the frame with hills in the background. There is a slight fish-eye bend around the edges of the frame.
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year (NASA)Sept. 10, 2025
Two streaks of grey/green rock run diagonally through the frame from top right to bottom left. One dark piece in toward the top right is labeled Olivine. In the reddish regolith between the two streaks, a seconds spot is labeled Leopard Spot.
What Would It Take to Say We Found Life? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 63 (NASA)Sept. 10, 2025
This is a mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The discovery of sugars in meteorites supports the hypothesis that chemical reactions in asteroids – the parent bodies of many meteorites – can make some of life’s ingredients.
NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation (NASA)Aug. 22, 2025
Ceres Seen From NASA's Dawn Spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability (NASA)Aug. 20, 2025
An artist drawing of the Europa Clipper spacecraft speeding from left to right over a photograph of Jupiter's moon Europa. The craft is a central circular shape with a large antennae dish. Two wings of solar panels spread out to either side.
NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars (NASA)Aug. 1, 2025
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan's surface, some filled with liquid hydrocarbons, and some appearing as empty depressions.
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on TitanJuly 14, 2025
This image shows a zoomed in view of an X1.4-class solar flare from the Sun, shown in blended wavelengths, 131 and 304 angstrom.
Discovery Alert: Flaring Star, Toasted Planet (NASA)July 3, 2025
An arial view above the surface of a dry, rocky planet. A canyon cuts up the middle of the scene, framing a glowing red star in the night sky.
A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery (NASA)July 1, 2025
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during its critical Mars Orbit Insertion process.
NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space (NASA)June 27, 2025
In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover uses the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL).
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scours Mars for Science (NASA)June 26, 2025
An artist representation of the OSIRIS-REx mission in comic book style. The spacecraft reaches out to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu. Pink diagonal bands of light emanate up from the asteroid surface. The Earth is seen in the distance.
What Are Asteroids? (NASA)June 26, 2025