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Artist drawing of a planet transiting a fiery star upper right. The space telescope is in the foreground lower left. The body of the craft and its lens tilted toward the star. A single, long solar array stretches out from the body to left bottom corner.
NASA’s Pandora Mission One Step Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres (NASA)Jan. 17, 2025
A point of light is left of center against a dark background. To the left of the point is a blue/purple cloud-like structure that spreads longitudinally toward the left of frame. Upper right is an orangish, almost butterfly-like structure of light.
Hubble Captures Young Stars Changing Their Environments (NASA)Jan. 17, 2025
Chandra is a long, tubular structure with two wings of solar panels (3 panels each). The telescope fills most of the frame with the solar panels reaching from bottom left to upper right. The tube points away from the camera. A blue planet is upper left.
Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds (NASA)Jan. 16, 2025
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
NASA-DARES RFI: Due Date ExtendedJan. 16, 2025
Ten small portrait images of sample tubes laying on the martian surface are combined to form one large landscape image. In each image a small tube sits on the ground in the shadow of the Perseverance rover. Perseverance (not visible) captured the images.
NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars (NASA)Jan. 8, 2025
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
LPSC Travel Grants for Early Career ScientistsDec. 30, 2024
Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun (NASA)Dec. 27, 2024
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during its critical Mars Orbit Insertion process.
Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars (NASA)Dec. 20, 2024
This artist's concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars.
NASA Mars Orbiter Spots Retired InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement (NASA)Dec. 16, 2024
A December 2007 artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe (NASA)Dec. 16, 2024
This artist impression shows the free-fall descent of the DAVINCI probe as it captures images and chemistry measurements of the deepest atmosphere of Venus for the first time.
NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets (NASA)Dec. 16, 2024
The northern half of Io is visible as half a disk against a black background. The moon is somewhat pinkish and the peaks of mountains are seen at the bottom of the image (from above) running across the moon's middle with other pockmarks and craters.
NASA’s Juno Mission Uncovers Heart of Jovian Moon’s Volcanic Rage (NASA)Dec. 12, 2024
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