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Scialog Awards: Signatures of Life in the UniverseJuly 7, 2023
Artist rendering of a red dwarf or M star, with three exoplanets orbiting. About 75 percent of all stars in the sky are the cooler, smaller red dwarfs. (NASA)
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable PlanetsJuly 5, 2023
This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism or TAGSAM.
Long History and Bright Future of Space Sample Deliveries (NASA)June 30, 2023
Artist’s illustration of two Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which is smaller and cooler than our sun. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looked for signs of atmospheres around these planets.
Webb Telescope Finds No Signs of a Thick Atmosphere Around a Second TRAPPIST-1 Planet (Many Worlds)June 29, 2023
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NASA's Early Career Investigator Program in Earth ScienceJune 29, 2023
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
Apply for the Astrobiology Mission Ideation FactoryJune 29, 2023
The nebula looks like colorful clouds of dust that fill the entire frame. Toward the top left the clouds appear as a mixture of pink and blue. The bottom right is filled with orange clouds. Bright pinpoints and flares of light from stars peak through.
Webb Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule (NASA Goddard)June 27, 2023
In this UV image of Mars, the planet appears greenish with a bright purple patch around the northern pole.
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Stuns with Ultraviolet Views of Red Planet (NASA Goddard)June 23, 2023
An artist illustration of TRAPPIST-1 b. To the left is a small red dwarf star. To the right and in the foreground is a rocky planet with a barren surface and no atmosphere.
Webb Rules Out Thick Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere for Rocky Exoplanet (NASA Goddard)June 21, 2023
This is a mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The discovery of sugars in meteorites supports the hypothesis that chemical reactions in asteroids – the parent bodies of many meteorites – can make some of life’s ingredients.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Will Have New Home in Houston (NASA)June 21, 2023
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Call for Membership: Mars Sample Return Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team 1 (MDT-1)June 20, 2023
Artist impression of NASA's Cassini spacecraft dives through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus in 2015.
NASA Cassini Data Reveals Building Block for Life in Enceladus’ Ocean (NASA JPL)June 15, 2023
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