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Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles
This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bri…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA caught a 1.2 mile-high Martian dust devil on camera and scientists say it's way bigger than whirlwinds on Earth
The Martian dust devil was more than 3.5 times the height of One World Trade Center in New York Cit…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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The first aircraft capable of flight on Mars finally makes contact with NASA after 2 months of radio silence
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is the first-ever machine capable of powered and controlled flight on…
Katie Hawkinson
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At age 12, I signed myself up for online astronomy classes under my mom's name. 14 years later I became the first Mexican-born woman to go to space.
After landing a dream job at NASA, Katya Echazarreta applied to go to space. In 2022, she made hist…
Yoonji Han
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For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity rover a daily 'wake-up' song. Listen to the best songs from the Mars morning routine playlist.
Mission engineers played a song each day to inspire Opportunity to turn back on. The rover lasted f…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Mars is spinning faster and its days are getting shorter — and scientists aren't sure why
Mars is losing a fraction of a millisecond every year, according to measurements by NASA's InSight …
Marianne Guenot
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Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.
The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has helped redefine our knowledge of the solar syste…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA's Curiosity rover captures first 'Sun Rays' on Mars
While sunsets on Mars are uniquely moody, NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a stunning image of a…
ANI
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India could suffer from an increased risk of these four health concerns due to climate change
To say the warming planet will have severe implications on human health is a terrifying understatem…
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Why we love to anthropomorphize space-faring robots
Robot explorers have been surveying the Martian landscape for decades. NASA engineers and scientist…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's InSight lander sent this final photo before dying after 4 years studying Mars quakes, dust devils, and meteor impacts
InSight revealed Mars's interior to scientists for the first time by capturing more than 1,300 Mars…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A green comet that takes about 50,000 years to complete its orbit around the sun will come closest to Earth for the first time since the Stone Age
The comet will be visible in late January and early February. Here's how to watch it, why it's gree…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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I pilot NASA's first and only Mars helicopter. My job can be like a video game, but not the kind with a joystick.
Håvard Grip wasn't super into Mars or space as a kid, but now he flies the first interplanetary hel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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It should take another 300 years for NASA's Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars.
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012 and is drifting through interstellar space at the edge of …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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I used to work on Mars rovers and now I develop self-driving cars. Here's how I made the pivot from NASA's JPL to Amazon's Zoox.
Olivier Toupet used to work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Now he's a principal software engineer a…
Alexa St. John
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A second Earth-sized world orbiting a dwarf star discovered by scientists
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-s…
ANI
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Perseverance spotted a mysterious object on Mars last month. It turned out to be the rover's own space litter.
NASA suspects spaghetti-like debris captured by Perseverance's cameras in July is shredded Dacron n…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA is starting to shut down the Voyager probes, which launched in 1977 and made it deeper into space than anything since
The Voyager probes massively exceeded the scope of their mission, but are running low on power afte…