NASA Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects
Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects,…
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NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Pebbles Before Mountains
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team has been working methodically and thoroughly, making good progress on understanding the best path forward to remove the uninvited pebbles…
Huge Mars Dust Storm Sends NASA’s InSight Lander Into Safe Mode
The lander has taken measures to conserve energy; engineers aim to return to normal operations next week. NASA’s InSight lander is stable and sending health…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has Debris Obstructing Bit Carousel After Latest Sample Collection
On Wednesday, December 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring…
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Auld Lang Séítah
While many reflect on the past and bid it farewell, there’s a lot of exciting science to come in the next year. While many were…
NASA Mars Helicopter Flight 19 – New Year, Same Ingenuity
The next flight on Mars marks the first of 2022 and the nineteenth for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The current mission goal is to reach…
Skywatching Highlights for January 2022: Don’t Miss Quadrantid Meteor Shower and Mars Rising
What’s Up for January? New year, new Moon; midnight meteors; and Mars rises. January begins with a new moon on the 2nd. And that means…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover 2021: Mapping the First Six Martian Samples
As the 2021 calendar year comes to a close, it’s nice to sit back and reflect on all the progress we’ve made on Mars this…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Milestones – 2021 Year in Review [Video]
What has NASA’s Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Is Not Susceptible to log4j Vulnerability
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter does not run Apache or log4j nor is it susceptible to the log4j vulnerability. NASA takes cybersecurity very seriously and, for this…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover and the Search “Amongst the Sand”
Since February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been exploring the Jezero crater floor, including an exposure of rock and sand that the rover’s science team calls…
We Asked a NASA Scientist: What’s It Like Landing on Mars? [Video]
What’s it like landing on Mars? Tough! But every time we land, we learn more. When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover descended toward the Red Planet,…
Eagle, Omega Nebula, Trifid, and Lagoon: Four Famous Nebulae With Breathtaking Beauty
Nebula [ neb-yuh-luh ]: star-forming cloud of gas and dust. Noun, plural neb·u·lae [neb-yuh-lee, -lahy] These four nebulae are known for their breathtaking beauty: the…
Making History on Mars: NASA Perseverance Rover’s Biggest Moments of 2021 [Video]
A new video looks back on the six-wheeled scientist’s first 10 months on the Red Planet and all that it’s accomplished so far. NASA’s Perseverance…
Stunning Observation of a Dark Nebula
This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula —…
How NASA’s Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unknown World We Can Barely Pinpoint From Earth
Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth…
Pair of Small but Mighty Weather Instruments en Route to Space Station – 5 Things To Know
Launched Tuesday to the space station, the COWVR and TEMPEST two instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather…
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover: To Séítah and Back
Six months ago, we began the dedicated investigation of the Jezero crater floor, and now in December 2021 we are more than halfway through this…