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Brown dwarfs – objects that fall between stars and planets – are shown in this illustration with temperatures ranging from hottest (left) to coldest (right). The middle two represent those in a temp range for clouds made of silicates to form.
NASA Helps Decipher How Some Distant Planets Have Clouds of Sand (NASA JPL)July 11, 2022
Data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at the asteroid Bennu indicates that the spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed dust and rock from the asteroid’s surface.
Surprise – Again! Asteroid Bennu Reveals its Surface is Like a Plastic Ball Pit (NASA Goddard)July 7, 2022
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Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds (NASA JPL)June 30, 2022
Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black, nitrogen as blue and oxygen as red.
Could the Blueprint for Life Have Been Generated in Asteroids (NASA Goddard)June 30, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up to the rover’s more powerful sampling drill.
Planning for Return Sample ScienceJune 28, 2022
From a position in the shallow "Yellowknife Bay" depression, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its right Mast Camera (Mastcam) to take the telephoto images combined into this panorama of geological diversity.
NASA’s Curiosity Takes Inventory of Key Life Ingredient on Mars (NASA Goddard)June 28, 2022
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region.
NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of Life on Mars (NASA)June 27, 2022
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a sulfate-bearing region using its Mastcam on May 2, 2022. Dark boulders seen near the center are thought to have formed from sand deposited in ancient streams or ponds.
NASA’s Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape (NASA JPL)June 23, 2022
NASA's InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, not long after landing.
NASA’s InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science (NASA JPL)June 22, 2022
Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure each episode — all you need is your curiosity.
The Search For Life: Are We Alone?June 21, 2022
An image of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta shot from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover, as viewed from the “Octavia E. Butler Landing” site.
Perseverance on Mars, an UpdateJune 10, 2022
NASA Ocean Worlds: Water in the Solar System and Beyond
National Ocean Month: Astrobiology and Earth's OceansJune 8, 2022
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