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NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy.
How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars (NASA)April 5, 2024
The blackened, somewhat cone-shaped capsule sits on it's "nose" (left of frame, side-on view) on sandy ground with scrub grass in the background. Small flags are stuck in the sand around the capsule.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy (NASA)March 26, 2024
This illustration depicts a brown dwarf – an object that is too heavy to be characterized as a planet, but not massive enough to power itself by nuclear fusion the way stars do.
NASA’s Hubble Finds that Aging Brown Dwarfs Grow Lonely (NASA)March 22, 2024
Stanley Miller appears in the Astrobiology Graphic Histories, carrying out landmark research into the origins of life. Available at: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/resources/graphic-histories/
Jumping a Hurdle in the Origin of LifeMarch 14, 2024
The circular logo features a simplified two-color image of Enceladus as the background. Black silhouettes of a lander, submersible, orbiter, hydrothermal vents, and Saturn can be seen. The logo says AbSciCon 2024.
AbSciCon Registration is Now OpenMarch 13, 2024
The frame is a horizontal rainbow of color on a grid. Shadows of molecules can be seen through the light as well as the jagged peaks and troughs of spectral lines.
Future of the Search for Life: Workshop ReportMarch 8, 2024
Hubble as seen from Discovery during its second servicing mission.
What Are Hubble and Webb Observing Right Now? NASA Tool Has the Answer (NASA)March 7, 2024
Artist image of Europa. A cross section in the top right of the moon shows the subsurface ocean beneath the icy crust. Ions flow around the moon from top to bottom.
NASA’s Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa (NASA)March 5, 2024
Portrait from the shoulders up. Natasha wears a brown leather jacket and her dark eyes looks off to the left. She is smiling, lips together. Her long, straight, dark hair drapes across her shoulder. Backdrop of dark space with planets orbiting a star.
NASA Astronomer Sees Power in Community, Works to Build More (NASA)Feb. 23, 2024
A person in a lab lifts a petri dish up to the camera. The dish obscures their face. They are wearing protective gloves, goggles, and lab coat as they scrape samples off the colonies growing on the dish.
NASA’s Planetary Protection Team Conducts Vital Research for Deep Space Missions (NASA)Feb. 23, 2024
Europa Clipper's high gain antenna, which is taller than the nearby workers, is covered in a protective shroud as it sits on a platform at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Engineering Astrobiology and ExplorationFeb. 21, 2024
In the center and center-right is a doughnut-shaped cloud that has splotches of orange-red with a bright yellow-orange center. In front is a reddish, leftover planet core with bright red lines stemming from it. Small, dark grey fragments are all around.
Glowing Cloud Points to a Cosmic Collision (NASA)Feb. 20, 2024
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