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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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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope ...
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NASA’s SunRISE Mission Targets No Earlier Than Mid-2027 Launch

NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch no earlier than mid-2027. The heliophysics ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...
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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’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

Mission scientists have never seen so many of the many-sided geologic features in one place on the Red Planet. As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle ...
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NASA Testing Advanced Capabilities for Moon, Mars Rovers

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day be used on future lunar and Red Planet missions. On a bleak stretch of the ...
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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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NASA’s Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars

There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is — without human help. Imagine you’re all alone, driving along ...
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NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on Universe

With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth. Scientists using data from NASA’s James ...
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NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

The telescope will help scientists answer big-picture questions about everything from water deposits in the Milky Way to what happened in the first second after the big bang. Launched in March, NASA’s ...
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NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions

The center leverages AI along with JPL’s unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. NASA’s Jet ...