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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 Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission (NASA)Sept. 9, 2024
Mars is at the far left of frame as a bright red/orange globe against the black of space. There is a spattering of red/orange pixels dense at the planet and dispersed across the frame like sand scattered across a surface.
NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water (NASA)Sept. 5, 2024
NUI's first launch at sea during the Santorini expedition.
The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, GreeceAug. 24, 2024
A theoretical instrument that would search for individual microbes on the surface of Mars.
NASA Trains Machine Learning Algorithm for Mars Sample Analysis (NASA)Aug. 14, 2024
The center of the frame is filled by a bright orange/yellow star. Massive solar flares burst out and the surface is covered with darker spots. The dark disk of a transiting exoplanet is seen top left, roughly 1/10 the diameter of the star.
How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research (NASA)Aug. 12, 2024
An artist image of an exoplanet that shows potential technosignatures: city lights (glowing circular structures) on the night side and multi-colored clouds on the day side that represent various forms of pollution, and orbiting solar panel arrays (right).
NASA Scientists on Why We Might Not Spot Solar Panel Technosignatures (NASA)Aug. 6, 2024
A three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun on the left side of our screen and a dramatic illustration of a star with a planet orbiting around it on the right side.
Coming in Hot – NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets (NASA)Aug. 5, 2024
The image shows Earth at center on a blue-tinted starry background. A spectra in light blue resembling the readout of a heartbeat monitor runs along the bottom.
Abstract Deadline Extended for Astrobiology and the Future of Life MeetingAug. 2, 2024
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.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock (NASA)July 25, 2024
Artist impression of NASA's Cassini spacecraft dives through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus in 2015.
NASA: Life Signs Could Survive Near Surfaces of Enceladus and Europa (NASA)July 19, 2024
When haze built up in the atmosphere of Archean Earth, the young planet might have looked like this artist’s interpretation — a pale orange dot.
An Ancient PartnershipJuly 18, 2024
Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed “Rochette,” from which NASA’s Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on the left, called “Montagnac,” Sept. 7, and the hole on the right, known as “Montdenier,” Sept. 1.
Here’s How AI Is Changing NASA’s Mars Rover Science (NASA)July 16, 2024
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