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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.
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?
Uncrewed lunar missions and 1st private space station among 2025 space launches
From uncrewed lunar missions to the launch of the first private space station, here's a sneak peek at the space missions that ...
Could AI robots replace human astronauts in space?
On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through ...
In ‘milestone’ moment, this LA County city’s Rose Parade float uses 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?
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 ...
The Mars Helicopter That Survived 72 Flights and Changed Planetary Exploration
Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...
Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow upgrades massive deep space antenna
JPL's Mojave Desert-based facility upgrade will enhance NASA's deep space communications capabilities for decades.
Reviewing 2024’s Biggest Private Gifts For Higher Education
Led by two $1 billion gifts for medical education, 2024 saw more than a dozen colleges & universities receive donations of $100 million or more. Here's a quick review.