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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
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
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
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
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.
The Sharpest Pictures of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io in a Generation (NASA)Feb. 12, 2024
A small star is visible in the background to the top right of the image with the planet, which appears dark red/brown with thin streaks of clouds, sits in the bottom right.
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone (NASA)Feb. 1, 2024