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The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper being unwrapped in a main clean room at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as engineers and technicians inspect it just after delivery in early June 2022.
NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Completes Main Body of the Spacecraft (NASA JPL)June 8, 2022
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Contribute to the Mars Exploration ProgramJune 1, 2022
The Space Between: This artist's concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago.
Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data (NASA JPL)May 23, 2022
InSight captured this image of one of its dust-covered solar panels on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
NASA’s InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish (NASA JPL)May 23, 2022
Marilyn Fogel was a leading figure in the fields astrobiology and geobiology.
In Memoriam: Marilyn FogelMay 20, 2022
Betül Kaçar (left) assistant professor of bacteriology, and graduate student Kaitlyn McGrath look at and discuss Petri dishes containing cultures of ancient DNA molecules in Kaçar’s research lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
NASA Astrobiology Unveils New Research Coordination Network at AbSciCon 2022 (NASA)May 16, 2022
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AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to CellsMay 10, 2022
This spectrogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was discovered by NASA's InSight lander on May 4, 2022, the 1222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
NASA’s InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars (NASA JPL)May 10, 2022
MIRI image is compared to a past image of the same target taken with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (at 8.0 microns).
MIRI’s Sharper View Hints at New Possibilities for Science (NASA)May 10, 2022
Martian surface frost, made up largely of carbon dioxide, appears blueish-white in these images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera aboard NASA’s 2001 Odyssey orbiter.
Science at Sunrise: Solving the Mystery of Frost Hiding on Mars (NASA JPL)May 9, 2022
Alta Howells (left), Alysia Cox (standing right) and James Leong (seated) take a gas sample for H2 analysis, review field notes and analyze aqueous chemistry on a spectrophotometer in Oman.
Surviving on Molecular HydrogenMay 6, 2022
A double ridge cutting across the surface of Europa is seen in this mosaic of two images taken by NASA’s Galileo during the spacecraft’s close flyby on Feb. 20, 1997.
Greenland Provides Insight into the Possibility of Liquid Water in Europa’s Icy ShellMay 3, 2022
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