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9 years on Mars! Curiosity rover marks another anniversary

The car-sized robot launched in November 2011 and touched down inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5, 2012. (The landing occurred on Aug. 6 Eastern time, but it was still Aug. 5 in California, where NASA's Jet ...

The Washington Post

Boeing, NASA silent on what's wrong with Starliner

The Washington Post

NASA and Boeing officials remained largely silent Wednesday about what the likely next steps are for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, a day after a much-anticipated test flight was scrubbed because a sensor indicated a valve on the vehicle wasn't in the proper ...

CNN

An illustration shows what the orbit of exoplanet HR 5183 b would look like if it was dropped down in our solar system. It would likely swing from the asteroid belt to out past Neptune, the eighth planet in our solar system. Show Caption. 42 of 78. At least two ...

Lunar samples solve mystery of the moon's supposed magnetic shield

In 2024, a new age of space exploration will begin when NASA sends astronauts to the moon as part of their Artemis mission, a follow-up to the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the biggest questions that scientists hope to explore include ...

NASA model describes nearby star that resembles early sun

New research led by NASA provides a closer look at a nearby star thought to resemble our young sun. The work allows scientists to better understand what our sun may have been like when it was young, and how it may have shaped the atmosphere of our ...

NASA identifies likely locations of the early molten moon's deep secrets

Shortly after it formed, the moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense minerals floated to form the surface crust. Later intense ...

Ingenuity Mars helicopter gearing up for 11th Red Planet flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is getting set for its 11th off-Earth flight, which could happen early Thursday morning (Aug. 5). The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. Six weeks later ...

Stars are exploding in dusty galaxies. We just can't always see them

A new study using data from NASA's recently retired Spitzer Space Telescope reports the detection of five supernovae, that going undetected in optical light, had never been seen before. Spitzer saw the universe in infrared light, ...

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission leaves for its last field trip

This week, NASA's airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission begins its final survey of glaciers that flow from Greenland into the ocean. OMG is completing a six-year mission that is helping to answer how fast sea level is going to rise in the next five, ...

Study reveals how smell receptors work

The channel pore (blue) of an olfactory receptor dilates (pink) when an odor molecule binds the receptor. Credit: Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. All senses ...