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May’s Night Sky Notes: How Do We Find Exoplanets? (NASA)May 1, 2025
The logo ELI5 in a rough, chalk-like blue outline against a black background with a few purple, hand drawn stars.
Explain It Like I'm Five: Episode 1, The OSIRIS-REx Mission (YouTube)April 28, 2025
Hubble as seen from Discovery during its second servicing mission.
Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit (NASA)April 24, 2025
Arriving at Uranus in 1986, Voyager 2 observed a bluish orb with extremely subtle features. A haze layer hid most of the planet's cloud features from view.
Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus (NASA)April 22, 2025
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover May Have Solved Mars’ Missing Carbonate Mystery (NASA)April 18, 2025
Artist's impression of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation (NASA)April 3, 2025
NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission is targeted to launch in 2023.
NASA’s SPHEREx Takes First Images, Preps to Study Millions of Galaxies (NASA)April 2, 2025
A series of 16 images of Uranus in a 4x4 grid. The top two rows are in color. The bottom two are black and white.
20-Year Hubble Study of Uranus Yields New Atmospheric Insights (NASA)April 1, 2025
The collage shows the organic molecules over the drill hole image (left). To right, a 'selfie' image of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. The molecules are chains of black bars with white balls signifying the bonds between carbon and hydrogen.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars (NASA)March 25, 2025
The image shows the spherical objects, against the orange-tinged background of the surface. The image appears as a circle framed by black. A 1cm scale bar is shown with the image roughly 10cm in width.
Shocking Spherules! (NASA)March 24, 2025
The glowing light of a rocket launch can be seen against a dark sky. The only source of light comes from the blast of the rocket, with some structures on the ground partially lit as well as the rocket pointing up toward the stars.
NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning (NASA)March 12, 2025
This artist impression shows the spacecraft center of frame against a muted space backdrop tinted in reds and purples (almost like gas). The dish of the craft points straight up with the various instruments and components protruding out.
NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission (NASA)March 6, 2025