An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is designed to give…
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In this illustration, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech One of the prime objectives of…
Illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
An illustration, created in March 2021, of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is targeted to launch to the main asteroid belt in August 2022 to investigate…
[embedded content] What’s Up for May? The planets of dusk and dawn, a lunar eclipse, and the Coma star cluster. Sky chart showing Mercury low…
Artistic rendering of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Recently on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from…
According to a recent NASA research, extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves will progressively cluster closer together in time and space, raising the…
This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may form over shallow, refreezing water pockets within the ice shell.…
Eyeing some of the components that enabled the Perseverance rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. NASAEstablished…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and showering us…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI The Mastcam-Z…
Animation of the Perseverance Rover driving on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech Collecting samples as it explores an ancient and now-dry river channel is but one goal the…
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL Ingenuity continued its journey towards the river delta at the beginning of this month with Flight 24. This…
Mars Perseverance Sol 374 – Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera: The turret, halfway through sampling the second core from the rock Sid this March. During…
This illustration, updated in April 2022, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of…
This photograph taken by an International Space Station astronaut shows a bright meteor from the Perseid meteor shower in Earth’s atmosphere. The brightest meteors are…
This computer simulation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks…
To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Defying Expectations: NASA’s Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Prestigious Collier Trophy
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s carbon fiber blades can be seen in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds…