We Asked a NASA Expert: Is NASA Aware of Any Earth-Threatening Asteroids? [Video]
Is NASA aware of any Earth-threatening asteroids? Luckily there are no known asteroid threats to Earth for at least 100 years. But that doesn’t mean…
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NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: New Software, New Drill Target, and an Existential Question
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sends a Beautiful Picture Postcard From Mars
An artistic interpretation of Curiosity’s view high up on a Martian mountain was created by mission team members who were stunned by the sweeping landscape….
A Whopping 301 Newly Confirmed Exoplanets – Discovered With New Deep Neural Network ExoMiner
Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the…
NASA’s “Eyes on the Earth” Real-Time 3D Visualization Tool Puts the World at Your Fingertips
The 3D real-time visualization tool lets users track NASA satellites as well as the vital Earth science data they provide. Recent upgrades make for an…
NASA’s OPTIMISM – Upgraded Perseverance Mars Rover Twin – Begins Terrain Tests
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving hazards on the surface of…
Dramatic Video of Mars Helicopter’s Challenging Flight Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video of rotorcraft performing to near-perfection. Video footage…
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Preparing To Glide Over “Raised Ridges” and Land Near Edge of “South Séítah”
With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” the site where Perseverance touched down with Ingenuity…
Mars – Or Arrakis? Perseverance Is Currently Winding Through a Maze of Towering Sand Dunes
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well over 50 million kilometers away…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Making Mars Safer for Astronauts – Here’s How
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. Could lava tubes, caves, or…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – Start of the Return Journey
With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field at…
Docking the Robotic Arm on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover
Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its robotic arm, the coring drill,…
Earth’s Atmosphere Reacted in Surprising Ways to Emission Reductions From COVID Pandemic
Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked. The…
Don’t Miss: Partial Lunar Eclipse, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter – November 2021 Skywatching Tips From NASA
What’s Up for November? Sunset planets, a partial lunar eclipse, and the return of the winter stars. From November 6th through the 11th, watch the…
Mars Perseverance Rover: Driving Farther and Faster With Autonomous Navigation and Helicopter Scouting
We’ve been driving on Mars since 1997, beginning with the 83 sol Sojourner rover mission. Since 2003 with the arrival of the Spirit and Opportunity…
Upgrading the Space Station’s Cold Atom Physics Laboratory With Mixed Reality
NASA is looking into whether mixed reality technology could help with repairs and upgrades on the cutting-edge Cold Atom Lab aboard the space station. NASA’s…
Earth’s Magnetosphere: Protecting Our Planet from Harmful Space Radiation
Among the four rocky planets in our solar system, you could say that Earth’s “magnetic” personality is the envy of her interplanetary neighbors. When solar…
Potentially Habitable Exoplanets: How To Find Hidden Oceans on Distant Worlds With Chemistry
A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is…