The Search for Life

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Search for Life
The Universe
After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other. Launched on March 11, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as […]
Posted May 2, 2025
Astrobiology
Curiosity (Rover)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Planets
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
The Search for Life
The Solar System
The Universe
Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed.
Posted March 24, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Heliophysics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
The Big Bang
The Milky Way
The Search for Life
The Sun
The Universe
NASA’s latest space observatory is targeting a March 8 liftoff, and the agency’s PUNCH heliophysics mission is sharing a ride. Here’s what to expect during launch and beyond. In a little over a day, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is slated to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. […]
Posted March 7, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Search for Life
The Universe
The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color. NASA’s SPHEREx mission won’t be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be […]
Posted October 31, 2024
Astrobiology
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Search for Life
The Universe
One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life — but NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions, including whether we are alone in the universe. For those who study the potential […]
Posted August 2, 2024
Astrobiology
Enceladus
Europa
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Search for Life
The Solar System
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life in the form of organic molecules (e.g. amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) could survive just under the surface ice despite the harsh […]
Posted July 18, 2024
Science & Research
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science Mission Directorate
The Search for Life
NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be the first space telescope designed to search for life outside our solar system.
Posted May 31, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Studying Exoplanets
Technology
The Search for Life
A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar system […]
Posted January 31, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

4
4
27
1
21
2
2
3
Io
3
227
6
2
185
1
9
2
1
1
10
530
40
10
16
103
1
1
6
6
3
7
1
2
4
1
1
1
1
11
2
2
4
1
15
145
1
3
1
1
65
38
158
34
1
4
12
3
5
2
5
10
293
1
1
1
17
1
6
3
1
31

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive