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NASA's Perseverance, Curiosity Panoramas Capture Two Sides of Mars
21+ hour, 54+ min ago (572+ words) Learn how NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are exploring different chapters of the Red Planet's ancient history. The two rovers captured scenes that highlight the different journeys they're taking, helping to piece together the puzzle of the Red Planet's…...
NASA's Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (807+ words) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie on Oct. 25, 2020, after drilling a rock sample from a spot nicknamed "Mary Anning." After years of extensive analysis, the sample has revealed the greatest diversity of organic molecules ever found on Mars. Credit:…...
What's Up - April 2026
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (395+ words) What's Up for April? Mercury shines at its brightest for the year, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a bright new comet makes an appearance in April's night sky. Mercury shines extra bright, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a…...
NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America's National Space Policy
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (248+ words) Artist's concept of Phase 3 of NASA's Moon Base. JPL will help support several of the agency's initiatives to advance the nation's leadership in space. As part of its "Ignition" event on Tuesday, March 24, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide…...
Nasa Research Proposes Technology To Seek Earth Like Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (146+ words) Caltech Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS) team'during a March 2026 workshop. The Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets concept combines an orbiting starshade with a large ground-based telescope to image planets outside our solar system. Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission's…...
NASA-ISRO Satellite Captures Pacific Northwest Through Clouds
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (501+ words) This image captured by the L-band SAR instrument on the U. S. -Indian NISAR mission on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Seattle in the center of the image with Bainbridge Island at left. The satellite can peer through clouds to view Earth's surface below. Seattle,…...
Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission's First Images
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (523+ words) The SPARCS cube satellite is ready to begin studying low-mass stars and to reveal details about the habitability of the planets they host. With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research…...
Nasas Dart Mission Changed Orbit Of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (693+ words) The Italian Space Agency's LICIACube traveled alongside NASA's DART to capture the spacecraft's collision with Dimorphos. In this LICIACube image, taken moments after impact on Sept. 26, 2022, rocky debris can be seen fanning out from the smaller asteroid below its larger…...
NASA's DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (693+ words) The Italian Space Agency's LICIACube traveled alongside NASA's DART to capture the spacecraft's collision with Dimorphos. In this LICIACube image, taken moments after impact on Sept. 26, 2022, rocky debris can be seen fanning out from the smaller asteroid below its larger…...
US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World's River Water
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (602+ words) Sunlight glints off one of the solar panels of the SWOT satellite in this artist's concept. The antennas of the mission's key instrument " the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (Ka RIn) " collect data along a swath 30 miles (50 kilometers) wide on either side…...