Images of Mars Eclipse Sparks Amusement Because it Looks Like a Googly Eye
The Perseverance rover on Mars recorded the potato-shaped moon of Phobos crossing in front of the Sun last week—a Martian eclipse.
The Perseverance rover on Mars recorded the potato-shaped moon of Phobos crossing in front of the Sun last week—a Martian eclipse.
Taken above an ancient river system in the Aeolis Planum region, the incredible pictures conjure images of a very different Martian surface.
The images came from the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program, supported by more than 150 astronomers.
An ancient lake bed on Mars may hold evidence of life on the planet, revealed a study of the Perseverance Rover's ground-penetrating radar.
NIAC has funded a variety of daring enterprises, including asteroid mining technologies and fungal house kits for Martian habitation.
Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights, Ingenuity flew two hours over three years.
Unlike any planets in our solar system that experience aurorae, it's an isolated object in space with no nearby star to create one.
A 10-yo British girl crazy about space has contributed to a time capsule headed for the lunar surface—on Vulcan/Peregrine flight to the Moon.
Budding astronaut Elizabeth Norman is only 7 years old, but she already has an object of hers joining an upcoming mission to the moon.
The rings of Saturn are well known, but Webb is now showing that Uranus and Neptune both sport sets of beautiful blue rings.
Ever since NASA's 5th Martian rover touched down on the Red Planet, it has been exploring a fan-shaped delta of an extinct water system.
NASA reported in August they have identified potential passenger markets in about fifty established inter-city routes.
The test data was beamed about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, from the recently-launched Psyche spacecraft to California.
Astronauts are trying out a new hi-tech space camera here on Earth, the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera tested by PANGAEA in Spain.
Jessica Meir and Christina Koch have just made history after completing the world's first all-female spacewalk this week.
100 years after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, scientists have confirmed that he was right about black holes—again.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the Kennedy Space Center put on a drone light show under a full moon with Duran Duran.
It has been 35 years since the world passed legislation to protect the ozone layer—and new research says that it has been a happy success.
This heartening reserach from the last 20 years has spurred NASA researchers to encourage optimism for humanity's future on Earth.
The planet, which is being called TOI 1338 b, is located 1,300 light years away and is the first circumbinary planet discovered by NASA's TESS telescope.
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