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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 Returns to Science Operations (NASA)April 18, 2024
This artist's concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle.
NASA Rapid Mission Design Studies for Mars Sample ReturnApril 16, 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, Providence, Rhode Island, 5-10 May 2024.
Call for Poster Competition Judges at AbSciConApril 11, 2024
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 Temporarily Pauses Science Observations (NASA)April 11, 2024
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
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