Is Earth getting brighter at night? It’s complicated, new NASA images reveal
A NASA study reveals that Earth is glowing brighter at night overall — but not everywhere, and not…
Next-Generation Mars Rover Wheels Allow Mars Vehicles To ‘Swim’ Across Dunes
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Mars Express Captured the Most Detailed Images Yet of a 1,300-Kilometer Scar Carved by Ancient Floods on the Red Planet
Shalbatana Vallis stretches roughly 1,300 kilometers, about the length of Italy, connecting the heavily cratered highland region of…
This photo isn’t the Moon. But it’s not the only stunning image from Psyche’s Mars flyby – Digital Camera World
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The Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed 72 flights in an atmosphere less than one percent as dense as Earth’s before rotor blade damage grounded it in 2024, and JPL had originally designed it for just five test flights, and the lessons from its overperformance are shaping NASA’s next generation of Mars aircraft
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was designed to attempt up to five experimental test flights over thirty days. It…
The universe’s ‘most relaxed’ galaxy cluster was shaped by cosmic violence, new study finds
For decades, astronomers have described the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, a vast city of galaxies in the Virgo…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff
Refresh 2026-05-20T12:08:15.587Z Starship stacked ahead of launch SpaceX raises Ship 39 onto its Super Heavy booster ahead of…
There is a single satellite launched by the US Navy in 1964 that is still in orbit, still transmitting, and still being used by amateur radio operators around the world — and nobody at the Navy has been in charge of it for decades
On December 28, 1964, a Thor-Able-Star rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and put…
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21
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Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing
Science Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul American outfit Varda Space Industries…
The Mars rovers carry no clocks set to Earth time, so the engineers driving them shifted their entire lives to a 24-hour-39-minute Martian day, and within weeks JPL staff were sleeping during California afternoons, eating breakfast at midnight, and quietly developing a kind of jet lag no human had experienced before.
The two NASA rovers currently working on Mars, Curiosity in Gale Crater and Perseverance in Jezero, run on…
The spectacular Venus, Jupiter and crescent Moon alignment this week, in images from around the world
It’s been a great week for naked-eye stargazing. Venus, Jupiter and the thin crescent Moon have been visible…