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NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon
If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard…
NASA to Discuss Artemis Acceleration, Status of Upcoming Moon Missions
NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m…
The 1st SpaceX Starship to survive a launch to space just came home to its launch site
Nearly three months after surviving its launch to space and a tumultuous trial at sea, the first Starship spacecraft to…
APOD: 2026 October 14 – Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora
What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster below an auroral curtain and above a…
NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday…
How mini-constellations could more quickly bring new tech to Europe, and to orbit
When the European thermal-imagery company constellr began working with Space Inventor on its next generation of…
Four years ago, NASA punched an asteroid. Europe's Hera probe arrives this month to inspect the wreckage
NASA's DART mission made a cosmic mess four years ago — and now a new spacecraft is ready to scout out exactly what the…
Comparing Off-World Rover Driving Distances
This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the…
NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team
Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…
Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive
Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams)…
Scientists discover that some of the universe's biggest explosions may have never happened at all
Now you see them, now you don't. Scientists have discovered that some of the universe's most powerful explosions…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover breaks interplanetary driving record — and it's far from done
In a milestone achievement, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for most miles driven on a world…
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