Stunning Martian Panorama Celebrates NASA’s Curiosity Rover’s 3,000th Day on Mars
As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it’s found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched…
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Gravitational Wave Search Finds Tantalizing New Clue: Unexplained Fluctuations in Space-Time
An international team of scientists may be close to detecting faint ripples in space-time that fill the universe. Pairs of black holes billions of times…
7 Things to Know About the NASA Perseverance Rover About to Land on Mars
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…
SPHEREx: A New NASA Space Telescope Will Help Unravel the Mysteries of the Big Bang
The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang, the composition of young planetary systems,…
Von Kármán’s Vortices: Key Mathematical Insight About Swirling, Asymmetrical Flow Patterns
On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid the flatter islands of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)….
NASA Skywatching Tips for January 2021
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…
A Martian Roundtrip: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in…
The Extraordinary Robotic Sample-Gathering System of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
Two astronauts collected Moon rocks on Apollo 11. It will take three robotic systems working together to gather up the first Mars rock samples for…
Watch NASA’s Exciting Mission Trailer: Perseverance Arrives at Mars
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…
NASA’s Mars InSight: 3 Major Martian Mysteries Resolved
Scientists are finding new mysteries since the geophysics mission landed two years ago. NASA’s InSight spacecraft touched down November 26, 2018, on Mars to study…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has 5 Hidden Gems Riding Aboard to Mars
The symbols, mottos, and small objects added to the agency’s newest Mars rover serve a variety of purposes, from functional to decorative. More than halfway…
Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery Gets Deeper and Wider With New Data From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
The spacecraft has been collecting data on the gas giant’s interior since July 2016. Some of its latest findings touch on “hot spots” in the…
Lunar Trailblazer: NASA Approves New Satellite to Map the Moon’s Surface
Producing maps to locate ice or water trapped in rock at the Moon’s surface, Lunar Trailblazer will help support NASA’s efforts to establish a sustainable…
Follow Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in Real Time As It Orbits Earth, Gathering Critical Measurements
With NASA’s Eyes on the Earth web-based app, you can tag along with the U.S.-European satellite as it orbits the globe, gathering critical measurements of…
MOXIE – A Device Aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover – Could Help Future Rockets Launch off Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen that, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not just for…
Hear Subtle Sounds NASA’s Perseverance Picked Up As It Travels Through Deep Space on the Way to Mars
The first to be rigged with microphones, the agency’s latest Mars rover picked up the subtle sounds of its own inner workings during interplanetary flight….
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Satellite to Monitor the World’s Oceans
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the world’s latest sea level satellite, is in orbit and ready to begin taking critical ocean measurements for the next five-and-a-half years….
Potential Plumes on Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa Could Come From Water in the Crust
Scientists have theorized on the origin of the water plumes possibly erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa. Recent research adds a new potential source to the…