NASA Gallery

Simulating a Submarine Hydrothermal Vent

A team of scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing whether organic molecules can be brewed in a...

A NASA Space Sleuth Hunts the Trail of Earth Water

This vertical profile view from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer TES instrument on NASA Aura satellite depicts...

Simulating Titan-Like Smog

In a laboratory experiment at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., scientists simulate the atmosphere...

Signature of a Carbon-Rich Planet

This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope indicates the presence of molecules in the planet WASP-12b -- a...

Does this Vial Contain Organics?

The NASA Astrobiology Icy Worlds team at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are collecting samples from a simulated...

Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix

NASA Spitzer Space Telescope detected a prebiotic, or potentially life-forming, molecule called hydrogen cyanide HCN...

Acetylene around Jupiter Poles

This graphic shows the distribution of the organic molecule acetylene at the north and south poles of Jupiter, based...

Dissecting the Wake of a Supernova Explosion

The elements and molecules that flew out of the Cassiopeia A star when it exploded about 300 years ago can be seen...

Weighing Molecules on Mars

New results from the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Curiosity rover detected about 2,000 times...

The Faint Young Star Paradox: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth

Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding...

Simulating Ancient Ocean Vents at JPL

Lauren White, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, adjusts an experiment that simulates how ancient...

Water Molecules on Moon Press Conference

Jiggling Soccer-Ball Molecules in Space

These data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show the signatures of buckyballs in space. Buckyballs, also called C60...

Microgravity

Watching molecules of the iron-storing protein apoferritin come together to form a nucleus reveals some interesting...

Capturing the Coma

This picture of Tempel 1 was taken by NASA Deep Impact. Even though the spacecraft was over 10 days away from the...

Microgravity

The Protein Crystallization for Microgravity (DCAM) was developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. A droplet...

Microgravity

Gravity or density-driven convection occurs as protein molecules incorporate into a crystal lattice from the...

Microgravity

The Protein Crystallization for Microgravity (DCAM) was developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. A droplet...

A Titan Discovery

NASA Goddard scientists have made an exciting discovery on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The team has definitively...

Microgravity

Like many chemicals in the body, the three-dimensional structure of insulin is extremely complex. When grown on the...

An Extended Stay Onboard The Space Station on This Week @NASA – April 19, 2019

An extended stay in space for one of our astronauts, a new resupply mission to the space station, and locating the...

Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering)

This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic...

Water Released from Moon During Meteor Showers

Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet...

Fluids on the Space Station

Fun with surface tension in space! Surface tension describes a property of liquids in which molecules of one...