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NASA's Perseverance rover has collected and stored its first rock sample from the top of Jezero Crater's delta. The rock, named "Berea," is believed to have formed from rock deposits carried downstream by an ancient river to the location....
NASA will be holding a virtual media briefing on Thursday, October 27th to discuss new scientific findings based on observations from the InSight Mars lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Scientists from both missions will explain how data and...
NASA's InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake on Dec. 24, 2021, but scientists only recently discovered that the cause was a meteoroid strike. The impact created one of the largest craters ever witnessed forming in the solar system,...
NASA's InSight lander is preparing to end its mission as its power supply dwindles. The lander has been exploring Mars since November 2018, and has provided details about the planet's interior layers, liquid core, magnetic field remnants, weather, and...
Space and defense company Aegis Aerospace Inc. celebrates the successful March 14, 2023 launch of two major space payloads – one commercial and one DoD – onboard SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS)-27 mission to the International Space Station.
The commercial...
Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in...
Perseverance Samples 'Berea': This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls “Berea” after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core (right) and abraded a circular patch (left). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Download image ›
The rover continues its...
Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task.
Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more...
The veteran rover captured a dazzling sunset at the start of a new cloud-imaging campaign.
Martian sunsets are uniquely moody, but NASA’s Curiosity rover captured one last month that stands out. As the Sun descended over the horizon on Feb....
Officials and customers of space and defense technology company Aegis Aerospace Inc. are celebrating a space exploration milestone with the delivery of Aegis Aerospace’s lunar payload “RAC-1”, along with its 15 customer material experiments, to Firefly Aerospace for integration...
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