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NASA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Marking a new journey in NASA’s exploration of Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to begin a monthslong, steep and challenging ascent up a crater, the space agency announced Wednesday. The Perseverance rover, nicknamed “Percy,” is the centerpiece of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, working to collect data in […]

Bill Stafford/NASA (NEW YORK) — For over a year, four crew members participating in NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha simulated experience communicated, ate, slept and researched as if they were stationed over 200 million miles away on the Red Planet. The mission, which marked the first completed installment of three planned programs from NASA’s Crew Health […]

NASA Voyager 1 concept depiction. Via NASA (NEW YORK) — After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from Earth. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) said Voyager 1 had not been sending readable data back to Earth since Nov. 14, 2023, despite the spacecraft still receiving […]

NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in Space’s Falcon 9 payload fairings on Jan. 30, 2024, at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Fla. (Katie Mellos/NASA Goddard) (NEW YORK) — While NASA is known for observing and researching outer space, the […]

ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA is preparing for its next mission: flying through the atmosphere of one of Saturn’s moons. The space agency’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander mission will be exploring Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, as well as the second largest in the solar system, and NASA announced this week that it performed […]

Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven, landed safely on Sunday morning to a crowd of cheering spectators — a bit earlier than planned but exactly in the manner it […]

Space Telescope Science Institut/ESA/NASA (NEW YORK) — A “swarm of boulders” was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, […]