NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Milestone: First Science Campaign Focused on the Jezero Crater Floor Completed
Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we…
Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we…
A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth…
There’s a huge amount of variety among exoplanets – planets located outside our solar system. There are water worlds, lava planets, egg-shaped worlds, planets with…
Scientists will compare thermophysical properties from rover to orbital data and analog measurements gathered on Earth to understand rock record. Launched in 2011, NASA’s Mars…
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the newest addition to a long line of ocean-monitoring satellites, becomes the reference satellite for sea level measurements. On March 22, the…
The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take dramatically different approaches to studying the…
Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars’ regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars’ surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Zooming in…
The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long…
Part of an ongoing project to grow the capacity of the Deep Space Network, which acts as a kind of interplanetary switchboard, the new antenna…
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location….
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars….
It takes a team to plan Perseverance’s daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or…
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations. NASA…
Asteroid 2022 EB5 was too small to pose a hazard to Earth, but its discovery marks the fifth time that any asteroid has been observed…
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was recently…
To celebrate Pi Day, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is serving up a series of science and engineering questions related to some of the agency’s Earth…
Meet Angie Jackman, the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle. Right now, some…