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A planet sits in the middle of the frame. It's surface is cracked, grey rock with streaks of orange/red lava showing through. A thin stream of gaseous material blows off to the right of the planet indicating the direction of its movement in orbit.
Fizzy Super Earths and Lava WorldsOct. 10, 2023
Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, en route to a January 2019 encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.
NASA’s New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System (NASA)Oct. 3, 2023
The image shows a bright, white star in the top right of the frame that takes up more than a quarter of the image. A gas giant can be seen in the center, orbiting near the star. The bottom of the frame is full of asteroids and debris.
Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There (NASA)Oct. 2, 2023
The image shows a white/blue clathrate underneath the overhang of a rock at the bottom of the seafloor center of frame. The rock and clathrate fill the image. Shells are scattered all around.
Discovery of New Proteins Advance Understanding of Climate and AstrobiologySept. 29, 2023
Close up photograph of a trilobite-looking fossil with spine-like extensions curling back over its body.
Machine Learning in the Search for Agnostic BiosignaturesSept. 28, 2023
A simple black and white image of the Periodic Table.
Autocatalytic Reactions and the Search for LifeSept. 27, 2023
The desert of Utah where a distant mountain towers over flat, sandy land with small scrub. The blackened landing capsule is visible in the foreground slightly right of center.
NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room (NASA)Sept. 24, 2023
A temporary clean room set up on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range is seen here, ready to receive a capsule with samples of asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24. The image was taken on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Secured in Utah Clean Room (NASA)Sept. 24, 2023
Pixelated image of Europa against a black background.
NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa (NASA Goddard)Sept. 23, 2023
A sample return capsule is suspended from an orange and white striped parachute above a desert landscape with patchy scrub visible.
NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample Return (NASA)Sept. 22, 2023
A wide angle shot from Perseverance of the sandy, rocky surface of Mars. Parts of the rover can be seen in the center foreground. Mountains are seen in the distance.
Autonomous Systems Help NASA’s Perseverance Do More Science on Mars (NASA JPL)Sept. 21, 2023
Three researchers in high visibility gear are in the foreground left facing away from the camera. Across the terrain of volcanic rock and pebbles, two researchers can be seen in the distance. Two groups stretch a measuring tape out between them.
Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland (NASA JPL)Sept. 20, 2023
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