On Oct. 20, the Kepler spacecraft joined the fleet of NASA science assets that observed distant Oort Cloud native Comet…
From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico…
The D-558-I “Skystreaks” were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and XF-92A. Three of the…
This graphic offers comparisons between the amount of an organic chemical named chlorobenzene detected in the “Cumberland” rock sample and…
This graphic shows tenfold spiking in the abundance of methane in the Martian atmosphere surrounding NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, as…
Data graphed here are examples from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) laboratory’s detection of Martian organics in a sample…
This illustration portrays some of the reasons why finding organic chemicals on Mars is challenging. Whatever organic chemicals may be…
This graphic shows the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, one of the tools within the Sample Analysis at Mars laboratory on NASA’s…
This illustration portrays possible ways methane might be added to Mars’ atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). NASA’s…
The Orion crew module is being moved by crane from its crew module recovery cradle and will be placed in…
