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Artist concept shows a glowing star in the center surrounded by two orange/red disks of debris encircling it. The two disks are not on the same plane, with the inner disk inclined in a way that casts shadows on the outer disk.
Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk (NASA Goddard)May 5, 2023
Astronomers detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water (NASA JPL)May 4, 2023
A small circular fossil sits in the center of the image. The rest of the frame is filled by the rock in which the fossil is found. A piece of paper sits below the fossil with the label ARB 452 S 231 Attin
New Australian National Park Protects Site Important to NASA Research (NASA)May 4, 2023
A 2012 coronal mass ejection from the sun. Earth is placed into the image to give a sense of the size of the solar flare, but our planet is of course nowhere near the Sun.
A Stormy, Active Sun May Have Kickstarted Life on Earth (NASA Goddard)May 3, 2023
This artist concept represents the rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b, which orbits a red dwarf star that is only 26 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. By observing GJ 486 b transit in front of its star, astronomers sought signs of an atmosphere.
Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star? (NASA Goddard)May 1, 2023
A nearly direct overhead view of the fossil site at Nilpena. tracks and paths can be seen on bare earth with some small scrubs visible as the only plant life.
Australia's Nilpena Ediacara National Park: A Site for AstrobiologyApril 28, 2023
Roman's primary structure hangs from cables as it moves into the big clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Framework for NASA’s Roman Spacecraft Moves to Goddard Clean Room (NASA Goddard)April 27, 2023
Voyager 2 entered interstellar space last month, becoming a space “artifact” of our civilization.
NASA’s Voyager Will Do More Science With New Power Strategy (NASA JPL)April 26, 2023
This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot that sodium inside Phaethon’s rock likely vaporizes and vents into space, causing it to brighten like a comet and form a tail.
Asteroid’s Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal (NASA Goddard)April 25, 2023
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’s solar panels have become covered with dust since the lander touched down on Mars in November 2018.
NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core (NASA JPL)April 25, 2023
Evaporation, convection, rainfall and winds can even out heat imbalances in the atmosphere. Here, cumulus clouds carry solar energy away from Earth’s surface over South America.
Whiffs and the Rise of OxygenApril 20, 2023
Illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star. TESS will identify thousands of potential new planets for further study and observation.
NASA’s TESS Celebrates Fifth Year Scanning the Sky for New Worlds (NASA Goddard)April 18, 2023
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