This week, we see Earth’s auroras, a spacecraft’s view of our planet, and a pioneering photograph of the Orion Nebula.

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

The night sky stretches above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s premier locations for ground-based astronomy. This view was captured beside Paranal’s Visitor ...

Research Interest: Dr. Pavithraa Sundararajan is an experimental Astrochemist, currently a NASA Postdoctoral (NPP) Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Sundararajan’s current research focus at the ...

Dr. He is a SETI Postdoctoral Research Fellow and previously a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, working on the Kepler Reprocessing Project. His office remains at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

July 20, 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Viking 1, the first spacecraft to successfully land and operate on the surface of Mars. Viking carried the first experiments designed to search directly for ...

NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula, is showcased in this enchanting image captured by Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope, located on Maunakea in Hawai‘i.

September 8, 2026, Mountain View, CA— The next breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may come not from a radio telescope, but from a microscope. A new study led by SETI ...

Two NASA rovers have strengthened the case that ancient Mars may have supported life. While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, long-lasting ...