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Artist concept of the New Horizons spacecraft.
Debris from the early Solar SystemAug. 15, 2019
NASA has begun a major project to explore the potential signs of life very different from what we have on Earth. For example, groups of molecules, like those above, can be analyzed for complexity, regardless of their specific chemical constituents.
“Agnostic Biosignatures,” And the Path to Life as We Don’t Know ItAug. 13, 2019
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.
Superflares from a Solar-Type StarAug. 6, 2019
The outer planets of the Solar System.
Early Career Participant Support: Outer Planets Assessment GroupJuly 30, 2019
This artist's concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars.
What Does a Marsquake Look Like?July 23, 2019
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan.
NASA Selects Flying Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of LifeJune 27, 2019
The three planets discovered in the L98-59 system by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) are compared to Mars and Earth in order of increasing size in this illustration.
NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet YetJune 27, 2019
This is an artist's concept depicting the presence of buckyballs in space. Buckyballs, which consist of 60 carbon atoms arranged like soccer balls, have been detected in space before by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Hubble Finds Tiny “Electric Soccer Balls” in Space, Helps Solve Interstellar MysteryJune 26, 2019
This image was taken by the left Navcam on the Curiosity Mars rover on June 18, 2019, the day when a methane plume was detected. It shows part of “Teal Ridge,” which the rover has been studying within a region called the “clay-bearing unit.”
Methane on Mars. Here Today, Gone TomorrowJune 25, 2019
Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait at 'John Klein' Drilling Site.
Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane LevelsJune 24, 2019
The Gemini Planet Imager searched hundreds of nearby stars for exoplanets using the Gemini South telescope located in the Chilean Andes.
Jupiter-like Exoplanets Found in Sweet Spot in Most Planetary SystemsJune 13, 2019
Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Photo by commander Eugene A. Cernan.
Restoring Data from the Apollo MissionsJune 3, 2019