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This artist's concept puts solar system distances -- and the travels of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft -- in perspective.
Revised Data Sets for Oort Cloud CometsMarch 24, 2020
A theoretical instrument that would search for individual microbes on the surface of Mars.
ExoMars to Launch in 2022March 14, 2020
Illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
Virginia Middle School Student Earns Honor of Naming NASA's Next Mars RoverMarch 6, 2020
Artist impression of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft around Mars.
Planetary Protection and the Moons of MarsMarch 6, 2020
A sample of suevite rock formed nearly 15 million years ago by the Ries Crater meteorite impact. Similarly impact-generated rocks exist on the rims of ancient crater lakes on Mars.
Ancient Impact Site on Earth Provides Clues about Mars' PastMarch 3, 2020
Illustration of NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft.
Stellar Wind and Planetary HabitabilityMarch 3, 2020
This artistic impression shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. In May the spacecraft began its new mission observing in the ecliptic plane, the orbital path of Earth around the sun, depicted by the gre
The Composition of Super-EarthsMarch 2, 2020
Telescopes at McDonald Observatory.
First Planet Validation for the Habitable Zone Planet FinderFeb. 28, 2020
This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (officially named Arrokoth in November 2019) was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019.
New Horizons Team Uncovers a Critical Piece of the Planetary Formation PuzzleFeb. 26, 2020
An illustration of Kepler2-33b, , one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA Kepler Space Telescope. It makes a complete orbit around its star in about five days–meaning that it is almost certainly not habitable.
Exploring Our Sun Will Help Us Understand HabitabilityFeb. 25, 2020
A 2012 coronal mass ejection from the sun. Earth is placed into the image to give a sense of the size of the solar flare, but our planet is of course nowhere near the Sun.
Shaping Habitability with Flares from the Early SunJan. 30, 2020
An artist representation of the OSIRIS-REx mission.
OSIRIS-REx Completes Closest Flyover of Sample Site NightingaleJan. 27, 2020