NASA’s PREFIRE Satellites Ignite New Insights Into Polar Climate Secrets
NASA's PREFIRE mission, involving two CubeSats launched from New Zealand, aims to resolve uncertainties about far-infrared ...
NASA's Martian helicopter promises unprecedented views of the red planet
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies again as first drone on Rose Parade float
The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...
Why the ‘race for space’ has only just begun
On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun and his team of engineers surrendered to American ...
NASA’s exciting 2024 began with a crash that ended a historic mission
NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...
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Solar wind squashed Uranus’s magnetosphere during Voyager 2 flyby
Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...
In ‘milestone’ moment, this Rose Parade float used 85% electric power
The self-built La Canada float for the 136th Rose Parade answers the question: Can a float run on battery-electric power?
Look Up! The Northern Lights May Be Visible This Week—Here's How to See Them
As people around the world celebrated the New Year on December 31, the northern lights put on a colorful display to ring in ...