Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own ...

In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from ...

The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on ...

Watch how astronomers used data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) to study a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called a quasi-periodic eruption, or QPE. NASA’s Goddard Space ...

Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Space Launch System (SLS), an integrated super heavy lift launch platform enabling a new era of science and human ...

Firsts First spacecraft to enter Jupiter's atmosphere Key Dates Oct. 18, 1989: Launch July 13, 1995: Probe was released from the Galileo spacecraft Dec. 7, 1995: Probe penetrated Jupiter's atmosphere ...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up ...

HD 59686 A b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 6.92 Jupiters, it takes 299.4 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 1.086 AU from its star. Its discovery was ...

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