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NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past (NASA)Feb. 25, 2025
SPHEREx is designed to explore the origin of the Universe, the origin and history of galaxies, and the origin of water in planetary systems.
NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients (NASA)Feb. 18, 2025
Illustration of an exoplanet with a hazy blue atmosphere and loose bands of clouds on the black background of space. The terminator, the boundary between the day and night sides is gradual. The planet is light blue with loose bands of white clouds.
NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System (NASA)Feb. 12, 2025
Europa Clipper, depicted flying over the surface of Europa.
En Route to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars (NASA)Feb. 4, 2025
The first cored sample of Mars rock is visible (at center) inside a titanium sample collection tube in this image from the Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam) of NASA’s Perseverance rover. The image was taken on Sept. 6, 2021.
Persevering Through Science (NASA)Feb. 4, 2025
This artist's concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars.
NASA’s InSight Finds Marsquakes From Meteoroids Go Deeper Than Expected (NASA)Feb. 3, 2025
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 Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients (NASA)Jan. 29, 2025
Juno fills most of the frame with a bit of black at the edges. The moon is yellow/orange and pockmarked with craters and volcanoes. A line runs nearly vertically down the center marking the lit and shadowed regions of the moon.
NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date (NASA)Jan. 28, 2025
Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Photo by commander Eugene A. Cernan.
NASA’s Apollo Samples Yield New Information about the MoonJan. 23, 2025
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NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards (NASA)Jan. 18, 2025
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
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