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One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

Earth is, simply put, a ball of confusion these days for most of us—from its pandemics to its politics and everything in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

The 3I/ATLAS comet was first spotted in July near Jupiter after it entered our solar system from another universe. Here’s ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...