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New video from NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars.

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers).

Just minutes after NASA's Perseverance Mars rover nailed its touchdown on the Red Planet, the spacecraft sent back the first two images of its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

NASA declared the InSight Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.

Scientists think a piece of 1960s space junk has slipped into orbit around Earth. Here's the story of the Centaur rocket body and the Surveyor moon program it powered.

The space agency used the upgraded Deep Space Station 43.

NASA is preparing to hand off to the private sector much of the work of communicating with spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit. SpaceNews.com

The launch is still currently on the books for approximately one year from now, but any this delay will likely push the launch back yet again The post NASA Pauses Work on James Webb Space Telescope Due to COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on ExtremeTech .

2020 EF will most likely not cause an impact event on Earth during a collision. Instead, the asteroid will probably break apart upon entering the atmosphere and cause an explosion in the sky. Unfortunately, this does not automatically mean that a collision with 2020 EF will not be dangerous for

Despite not actually getting to walk on its surface, the Apollo 13 astronauts were still able to visit the moon from a distance of around 158 miles which is closer than most of their fellow Earth dwellers will ever get to it. You can, however, see exactly

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a commercial Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station for NASA after a week of delays.

A government report announced that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team gives the project just a 12% chance of launching in March 2021.

A company called Axiom Space is taking the idea of co-working space to a new altitude.

NASA has a lot of high-tech hardware cruising around in space right now, but one of the space agency's pint-sized exoplanet hunters appears to have gone dark. In a post by NASA's Jet Pr...

"There are no emergency rooms in space."

A UFO expert claimed that a video captured by NASA showed a UFO flying near Russia's Soyuz capsule as it was docking at the International Space Station (ISS). According to the expert, the UFO may have been observing the space station to study the acti

The capsule may land Sunday (Dec. 22), six days earlier than planned.

This artist's impression shows a view of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system. NASA/ESO/M. Kornmesser Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited

The glow of the Milky Way—our galaxy seen edgewise—arcs across a sea of stars in a new mosaic of the southern sky produced from a year of observations by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Constructed from 208 TESS images

NASA is reportedly investigating a UFO sighting during a torrential storm in Spain. Based on a video taken during the incident, a silver saucer-like vessel appeared during an electrical storm over a city