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Giada Arney, Research space scientist at NASA Goddard.
Giada Arney, Research Space Scientist, Will Look for Life on Exoplanets (NASA Goddard)Aug. 26, 2020
Artist illustration of the asteroid Psyche, which will be the first metal-rich celestial body to be visited by a spacecraft.
Cores, Planets and The Mission to PsycheAug. 25, 2020
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy.
Unveiling Rogue Planets With NASA’s Roman Space Telescope (NASA)Aug. 24, 2020
NASA Goddard astrobiologist Daniel Glavin poses in 2002 next to a meteorite he had just found during an expedition in Antarctica.
Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks (NASA)Aug. 22, 2020
This artist’s rendering shows our Sun as it may have looked 4 billion years ago.
Gravity Assist: Our Sun, Our Life, with Vladimir Airapetian (NASA)Aug. 21, 2020
This artist's concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle.
NASA Establishes Board to Initially Review Mars Sample Return PlansAug. 14, 2020
Too hot to host life, the high temperature Beebe Vents black smokers serve as the source fluids for nearby mixing zones that span the thermal boundary between habitable and uninhabitable below-seafloor environments.
Does Hydrogen Feed the Subseafloor Biosphere?Aug. 14, 2020
Astrobiologist Kennda Lynch at her field site in Pilot Valley, Utah.
Gravity Assist: ‘Oxygen is Tree Poop’ – Looking For Life in Ancient LakesAug. 14, 2020
Image from OSIRIS-REx at approximately 420 feet (128 meters) above the surface of Bennu. The spacecraft’s sampling arm – called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) – is visible in the lower part of the frame.
A Successful Second Rehearsal Puts NASA’s OSIRIS-REx on a Path to Sample Collection (NASA)Aug. 12, 2020
Artist impression of the TESS spacecraft.
NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission (NASA Goddard)Aug. 11, 2020
This artist's concept appeared on the Feb. 23, 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the nearby star TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-sized planets orbiting it.
How Many Habitable Zone Planets Can Orbit a Host Star?Aug. 11, 2020
This mosaic image uses false color to highlight the recently exposed brine, or salty liquids, that were pushed up from a deep reservoir under Ceres' crust. In this view of a region of Occator Crater, they appear reddish.
Mystery Solved: Bright Areas on Ceres Come From Salty Water Below (NASA JPL)Aug. 10, 2020
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