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Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...
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NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a dry riverbed along which JPL would rise. Their work helped make possible missions such as ...
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NASA Study Refines Projections for Thwaites Glacier

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier pictured in 2014. A new study using a computer model developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.
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What's Up: October 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

See Saturn at opposition, catch the Orionid meteor shower, and watch the Moon pass close to the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. Saturn takes center stage, a meteor shower lights up the sky, ...
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space ...
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars

A new study reveals that Jezero Crater’s enigmatic ‘Margin Unit’ was shaped by a complex sequence of ancient lakes, groundwater systems, and hydrothermal fluids. When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Martian Moon

The first observation of its kind captures our home planet slipping behind Phobos in the Martian evening sky. Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired ...
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in preparation for its arrival at asteroid Psyche in 2029. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flew ...
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NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño

Waves of higher, warmer water move eastward across the Pacific Ocean a few months before an El Niño emerges. Several have shown up in 2026 satellite data. Sea level data from a satellite launched by ...
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Hello Universe: NASA’s Next-Gen Space Processor Undergoes Testing

As part of a commercial partnership, the project is developing a sophisticated chip that will give spacecraft the processing capabilities to think for themselves. NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight ...
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NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

The faster a Mars helicopter’s rotors spin, the heavier the payloads it can transport and the farther it can fly. The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian ...