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In the spring of 2019, the six-wheeled Spirit rover was driving backwards to drag an inoperable front right wheel when it got stuck on the sandy Martian surface. Despite spending months trying to excavate its robot, NASA could not free Spirit. Now, engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison may have figured out a way to better prepare NASA’s robots for …

The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa. As it soared past Mars in March, NASA’s Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish on Earth. Now that mission scientists have studied the full stream …

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut …

A viral claim is circulating on social media platforms that the whole world will go dark for six minutes on the upcoming August 2, 2025. Some posts even claim that this event won’t happen again for 100 years. Denying all rumours, experts say the claim is not true and that there will be no blackout on August 2, 2025. Instead, …

SpaceX Set to Launch NASA’s Crew-11 Mission to the Space Station  The New York Times Live coverage: Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station  Spaceflight Now WATCH: NASA’s SpaceX Dragon Crew-11 set to blast off for International Space Station at 12:09 pm  WPTV NASA SpaceX Crew-11 rocket launch in Florida: What time is liftoff near Cape Canaveral?  Florida …

When NASA launched Opportunity and its twin Spirit in 2003, the mission team was aiming for a three-month journey on Mars. According to NASA’s own historical records, each rover was built to function for just 90 sols (about 92 Earth days). Opportunity landed in Meridiani Planum, a site scientists picked because it showed signs of a watery past—minerals called hematite, …

Another Florida Man On NASA’s 9th Floor?  NASA Watch Source link

Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a low-intermediate mass star late in its life, can come in all shapes and sizes. Most planetary nebula present as circular, elliptical, or bi-polar, but some stray from the norm, as seen in new high-resolution images of planetary …

In June 2025, data from NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 confirmed a dramatic finding: a region at the edge of the heliosphere with temperatures between 30,000 and 50,000 kelvin. Often described as a “wall of fire,” this boundary—known as the heliopause—marks where the Sun’s solar wind collides with the interstellar medium. The discovery provides an unprecedented look at the …

NASA’s exploration missions have recently come under scrutiny due to a potential error in how the physics of lunar and Martian surfaces are understood. While working on NASA’s VIPER mission, a team noticed a significant discrepancy in the way the lunar and Martian soil dynamics were modeled during rover testing. This miscalculation may have contributed to past issues, such as …