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An artist’s illustration of TOI-1338b and its two host stars.
Tatooine WorldsJan. 15, 2020
Artist impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet.
Gas Dynamics in Protoplanetary DisksJan. 14, 2020
Artist's illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will perform multiple flybys of the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon.
Tidal Heating on Icy MoonsJan. 13, 2020
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone WorldJan. 7, 2020
Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. Crescents are other planets in the system, and the red sphere is the M-dwarf star around which the exoplanets orbit.
New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with OxygenJan. 6, 2020
Del Genio, second to the left, and colleagues of the NASA ROCKE-3D NExSS team at their first team meeting at GISS in 2015.
Using Climate Science on Earth to Understand Planets Beyond EarthJan. 3, 2020
An artist illustration, based on scientific findings, of Gale Crater in Mars during one of its ancient, wet periods.
How Long Were the Wet Periods on Early Mars, and Was That Water Chemically Suitable For Life?Dec. 16, 2019
This is an artist's illustration of a plume of water vapor being ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa.
Icy Moons and Their PlumesDec. 10, 2019
The first global geologic map of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is based on radar and visible and infrared images from NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
A Global Map of Titan's SurfaceNov. 21, 2019
Europa is one of the moons in our solar system that could host life. What about beyond the solar system?
NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on EuropaNov. 20, 2019
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.
First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of LifeNov. 19, 2019
The Kuiper Belt is a region of leftover material from the Solar System's early history and resembles a thick disk beyond the orbit of Neptune. Beyond the Kuiper Belt is the Oort Cloud. Both the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt could be sources of comets.
An Exo-Kuiper Belt in Scattered LightNov. 13, 2019