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This is an artist's concept of the young Earth being bombarded by asteroids. Scientists think these impacts could...
Dr. Phoebe Cohen, Professor of Geosciences, Williams College, speaks on a panel at the “Ancient Earth, Alien Earths”...
Dr. Christopher House, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, speaks on a panel at the “Ancient...
Dr. Timothy Lyons, Professor of Biogeochemistry, UC Riverside, speaks on a panel at the “Ancient Earth, Alien...
Dr. Dawn Sumner, Professor of Geology, UC Davis, speaks on a panel at the “Ancient Earth, Alien Earths” Event at...
An audience member asks the panelists a question at the “Ancient Earth, Alien Earths” Event at NASA Headquarters in...
This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft early Dec. 12, 1990, when the spacecraft was...
Panelists discuss how research on early Earth could help guide our search for habitable planets orbiting other stars...
Panelists pose for a group photo at the “Ancient Earth, Alien Earths” Event at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC...
Dr. David H. Grinspoon, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, moderates a panel at the “Ancient Earth,...
Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Research Space Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks on a panel at the...
Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Research Space Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks on a panel at the...
NASA Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity, or saltiness, of Earth ocean surface,...
The total distance driven on Mars by NASA Mars Exploration Rover, 34.36 kilometers by early December 2011, is...
The total distance driven on Mars by NASA Mars Exploration Rover, 21.35 miles by early December 2011, is approaching...
This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by NASA Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large...
The blood moon lunar eclipse over New Orleans, home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, is shown from full moon to...
Cynthia Hall, support scientist for the Early Career Research Program in NASA’s Earth Science Division, right, and...
Earth observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 37 crew. Per Twitter message: Early morning fog in the...
Cynthia Hall, support scientist for the Early Career Research Program in NASA’s Earth Science Division, speaks to...
These maps of four European cities show ECOSTRESS surface temperature images acquired in the early mornings of June...
Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both the Earth and moon...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so...
S130-E-006306 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Astronaut George Zamka, STS-130 mission commander, retrieves a drawer of food on the...