As we remember the now-officially-dead Opportunity rover this week, one fact keeps sticking out to me: That machine…
NASA has officially called an end to the historic Opportunity rover mission, ending a spectacular, 14-year adventure on…
The twisting terrain of Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars has been home to NASA’s Curiosity for over a year, but it’s time for…
The appearance of a massive white cap on Uranus may seem alarming, but as planetary scientists are learning, this is…
A pair of small satellites that joined the InSight mission on its way to Mars haven’t been heard from in over a…
A dome placed over InSight’s seismometer will now protect the sensitive device from Martian wind and extreme…
It’s Super Bowl Sunday! There will be drinking (if you partake)! And wings (also if you partake)! And fervid screaming…
Scientists working with the Curiosity rover used a piece of its navigation equipment—an accelerometer like the one in…
The best planet is Earth, objectively, and I only say that because I live there. Other than Earth, you might find fans…
January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national parks i…
A re-analysis of lunar materials collected during the Apollo 14 mission has resulted in a rather astonishing…
New research suggests that much of the material that made life possible on Earth arrived after a cataclysmic collision…
By comparing the age of impact craters on the Moon to those on Earth, researchers say they have discovered a surge in…
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star…
The Moon’s far side near its southern pole is a dead, dim place littered with pits and rocks, as the first panoramic…
The U.S. government may be in partial shutdown mode, but operations to configure instruments critical to NASA’s InSight…
For the first time in history, a mobile probe is active on the far side of the Moon.
While performing its 17th flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed a volcanic plume erupting from the surface…
Kilauea’s historically huge 2018 eruption didn’t just transform the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island. Most of…
Korolev crater on Mars boasts an ice rink measuring over 50 miles wide—and it’s one of the most spectacular surface…
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