NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”
An unusual discovery on the Red Planet has revealed an odd-looking series of polygon-shaped structures, documented in new…
What’s Up: July 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings…
Scientists Built a Mars Rover That “Swims” Through Sand
The Mars rover with its innovative wheels, which can ‘swim’ through sand, modelled on a desert lizard. Credit:…
Mars Perseverance Rover Completes a Marathon on Mars to Cap Off Extraordinary 5 Years
A map of the Perseverance Mars rover marathon – credit, NASA NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just completed a…
Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries
Realistic image of a completely terraformed Mars. Credit: Daein Ballard Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle,…
For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a surface so young it should not exist.
NASA’s New Horizons Explained: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which left Earth nearly two decades ago and has transformed…
In September 1999 a NASA spacecraft that had flown 416 million miles to Mars was torn apart in the planet’s atmosphere — not by an explosion or bad luck, but by a units mix-up, one team using imperial pounds where another expected metric newtons, the same mistake that strips a bolt in a home garage.
In September 1999, a NASA spacecraft that had traveled roughly 416 million miles to reach Mars flew too…
Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential
New Delhi: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, at a technology conference in Paris in June, said that artificial intelligence is…
Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher
During a recent field test in the Colorado desert, a four-wheeled rover traveled across 16 miles (25 kilometers)…
Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise
Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected treasure. Hidden inside a…
NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science
NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with…
Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission
WASHINGTON — Relativity Space plans to launch a Mars orbiter in 2028 as part of a new initiative…