Missions

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: a hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine."

New research suggest that glycine, and very likely other amino acids, form in dense interstellar clouds well before they transform into new stars and planets.

In a new video from the NASA Astrobiology Program, astrobiologists Dr. Jason Dworkin and Dr. Scott Sandford explain the importance of the OSIRIS-REx mission in the quest to understand the role that asteroids and other small bodies play in the origins of life on Earth.  OSIRIS-REx & the

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.

Some exoplanets have a direct line of sight to observe Earth’s biological qualities from far, far away.

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will identify planets with large orbits, similar to our solar system's far-flung giants, Uranus and Neptune.

The Mars Helicopter is riding to the Red Planet this summer with NASA's Perseverance rover. The helicopter's chief engineer, Bob Balaram, shares the saga of how it came into being.

Along with capturing an image before its steepest ascent ever, the Curiosity Mars Rover robotic explorer filmed its "selfie stick," or robotic arm, in action.

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF).

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will observe exoplanet worlds with the goal of making the first detailed near-infrared study of the atmosphere of a habitable-zone planet.