NASA’s Perseverance rover snaps selfie on Mars’ oldest terrain

NASA’s Perseverance rover has snapped another incredible selfie on Mars while exploring some of the oldest terrain ever ...

NASA Drops 12,000 New Photos From Artemis 2 — Here Are The Best

NASA has published 12,000 new photos taken by the Artemis 2 astronauts during their mission around the moon April.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sends new self-portrait from the red planet

Perseverance captured the composite image using 61 individual snapshots taken by the camera mounted at the end of its robotic ...

NASA’s Next-Gen Processor Is 500 Times More Powerful Than Current Space Chips

NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project began testing the next-generation processor in February, sending an ...

NASA airplane in Colorado Springs mapping the West for critical mineral resources

A NASA airplane designed around the U-2 spy plane of Cold War fame is calling Colorado Springs home, flying from the Colorado Springs Airport as the U.S. Geologic Survey and NASA partner to survey ...

NASA satellite images show how a massive tsunami in Alaska changed the landscape forever

New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...

OTD In Space - May 14: NASA Launches 1st Skylab Space Station

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported ...
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This microscopic fungus survived NASA's sterilization protocols—and is hardy enough to potentially contaminate Mars

As scientists search for life beyond Earth, spacecraft need to avoid accidentally bringing organisms from our home planet to ...