In this artist’s concept of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet’s subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen…
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next logical question in Mars exploration. With…
This animation shows the preliminary design for the spacecraft, including hexagonal sun shields that will help keep the instruments cool. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The observatory will…
December 20, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid…
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2021? Mark Earth’s closest approach to the Sun for the year, called perihelion, at the start of the…
This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used…
JPL engineers monitor testing of the Perseverance rover’s Sample Caching System in this video clip. For the full video, see below. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Two astronauts…
After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on February 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface…
This illustration shows NASA’s InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists are finding new mysteries since the geophysics mission…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is “festooned” with a variety of objects that serve both decorative and functional purposes, from commemorative placards to a slice of…
In this animated GIF, the clouds on the periphery of some of Jupiter’s polar cyclones rotate counterclockwise, while the core of the cyclones rotate clockwise.…
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California on Nov. 21. NASA’s Eyes visualization tools lets you track the…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer…
Hear Subtle Sounds NASA’s Perseverance Picked Up As It Travels Through Deep Space on the Way to Mars
In this annotated illustration, the location of the Perseverance rover’s entry, descent, and landing microphone is shown. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The first to be rigged with…
The U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifts off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California on November 21,…
The Blue Ring Nebula, which perplexed scientists for over a decade, appears to be the youngest known example of two stars merged into one. In…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled…
The parachute for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is tested in a wind tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Credit:…
This illustration of Jupiter’s moon Europa shows how the icy surface may glow on its nightside, the side facing away from the Sun. Variations in…
A powerful X-ray burst erupts from a magnetar – a supermagnetized version of a stellar remnant known as a neutron star – in this illustration.…