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This image shows the Highfield drill hole made by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it was collecting a sample on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars. Drill powder from this hole was enriched in carbon 12.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars (NASA Goddard)Jan. 18, 2022
Planet XO-3b has an internal source of heat, possibly from tidal heating, which is caused by the squeezing of the planet’s interior by the gravity of its parent star. This could be increased by the planet’s slightly elliptical orbit (shown on the right).
NASA’s Spitzer Illuminates Exoplanets (NASA JPL)Jan. 13, 2022
This selfie of NASA’s InSight lander is a mosaic made up of 14 images taken on March 15 and April 11 – the 106th and 133rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission – by the spacecraft Instrument Deployment Camera located on its robotic arm.
NASA’s InSight Enters Safe Mode During Regional Mars Dust Storm (NASA JPL)Jan. 11, 2022
This synthetic image visualizes what a Roman ultra-deep field could look like. The 18 squares at the top of this image outline the area Roman can see in a single observation, known as its footprint.
Simulated Image Shows How NASA’s Roman Could Expand on Hubble’s Deepest View (NASA Goddard)Jan. 10, 2022
The addition of false color to an image captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, reveals a series of rings around a young star named HD163296.
Study Indicates that the Sun had Rings before PlanetsJan. 7, 2022
On our quest to find life beyond Earth, scientists first must have to ask themselves: what signs would be the most compelling evidence?
Inter-Connections between Life-Detection Science and TechnologyJan. 7, 2022
The last view of the JWST and its unfurled solar arrays after it separated from the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and started it’s month-long and extraordinarily complicated deployment.
The Amazing Unfurling Of The James Webb Space TelescopeJan. 3, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope before launch — the most powerful space telescope ever made.
Track the Webb Telescope and Follow its Deployment (NASA)Dec. 27, 2021
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched Dec. 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.
NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds (NASA)Dec. 25, 2021
Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.
NASA, Partners Complete Webb Rocket Rollout (NASA)Dec. 24, 2021
Artist's impression of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The James Webb Telescope and Exoplanet ScienceDec. 23, 2021
This JunoCam image shows two of Jupiter's large rotating storms, captured on Juno’s 38th perijove pass, on Nov. 29, 2021.
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft ‘Hears’ Jupiter’s Moon (NASA JPL)Dec. 21, 2021
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