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NASA Plans to Unleash a Wolf Pack of Rovers Onto the Lunar Surface in 2024
What’s better than one lunar rover? Three lunar rovers! In 2024, NASA plans to send a team of suitcase-sized wheeled…
Psyche Mission Passes Independent Review Board with Flying Colors
An independently appointed review board recently announced that NASA, their Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology…
The Mars Sample Return Mission Will Take Two Helicopters to the Red Planet to Help Retrieve Samples
NASA’s upcoming Mars Sample Return mission plan just received a glow-up: it will now carry a pair of twin helicopters,…
According to Perseverance, Mars is Quiet… too Quiet
If you want to hear what Mars has to say, you're going to have to listen closely. Very closely. (more…)
NASA’s InSight Will Have Reduced Capability Until a Dust Devil Cleans off its Solar Panels
All eyes are on Mars this week, and, if we're being honest, NASA's InSight lander isn't the star of the…
Radishes Can Likely Grow in Lunar Regolith
For many of us, gardening has been a therapeutic distraction during this time of pandemic quarantine. But some researchers from…
You Can Use a Live Webcam to Watch NASA Build the Mars 2020 Rover
NASA's next mission to the surface of Mars is called the 2020 rover (in case you didn't know already.) It's…
Oumuamua Could be the Fragment of a Disintegrated Interstellar Comet
Since it was first detected hurling through our Solar System, the interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua has been a source…
Sky Pointing Curiosity Captures Breathtaking Vista of Mount Sharp and Crater Rim, Climbs Vera Rubin Seeking Hydrated Martian Minerals
5 years after a heart throbbing Martian touchdown, Curiosity is climbing Vera Rubin Ridge in search of “aqueous minerals” and…
Opportunity Starts Historic Descent of Tantalizing Martian Gully to Find Out How Was It Carved
From the precipice of "Perseverance Valley" NASA’s teenaged Red Planet robot Opportunity has begun the historic first ever descent of…