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Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b. In the right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet is shown orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt.
Exo-Asteroids and Habitability around M-DwarfsJan. 26, 2023
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A New Method to Detect Exoplanet Atmospheres with WebbJan. 24, 2023
Astronomers have taken an inventory of the most deeply embedded ices in a cold molecular cloud to date. They used light from a background star, named NIR38, to illuminate the dark cloud called Chamaeleon I.
Webb Unveils Dark Side of Pre-stellar Ice Chemistry (NASA Goddard)Jan. 24, 2023
Dr. Reggie Hudson of the Cosmic Ice Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Reggie Hudson Receives 2023 LAD PrizeJan. 23, 2023
This view of Jovian moon Europa was created by processing an image JunoCam captured during Juno’s close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
Call for Ocean Worlds Working Group Inaugural Co-ChairsJan. 23, 2023
This shows the X-ray diffraction patterns made from data obtained by Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument (CheMin) of a sample collected from the Martian surface by NASA's Curiosity rover.
What is the Chemistry and Mineralogy Instrument?Jan. 19, 2023
Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can be seen in the distance.
NASA’s TESS Discovers Planetary System’s Second Earth-Size WorldJan. 17, 2023
An artist's concept of a comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter's moon Europa.
Impact Delivery of Life's Ingredients into Europa's OceanJan. 12, 2023
A brightly reflective Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings, while the planet's larger moon Titan looms in the distance. Jets of water ice and vapor emanating from the south pole of Enceladus hint at a subsurface ocean on the tiny moon.
Save the Date: Josep Comas i Sola International Summer School in AstrobiologyJan. 11, 2023
A star emerges from its natal cloud of gas and dust in this tantalizing portrait of RY Tauri, a small stellar nursery at the edge of the Taurus molecular cloud.
Complex Organic Compounds Formed Where Stars Are Being BornJan. 10, 2023
The 2022 Sagan Medal for excellence in public communication has been awarded to Dr. Caleb Scharf of Columbia University.
Caleb Scharf: Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research CenterJan. 6, 2023
The mountains of northeastern Oman are rugged, dry, and as much as 2,500 meters above sea level. Millions of years ago, parts of these mountains were beneath the sea. The landscape is known to geologists as the Semail (or Samail) ophiolite.
Finding Life in SerpentiniteJan. 5, 2023
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