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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies again as first drone on Rose Parade float
The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...
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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...
The Mars Helicopter That Survived 72 Flights and Changed Planetary Exploration
Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
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Scientists discover “dark comets” come in two populations
On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the ...
A massive 94-foot airplane-sized asteroid is coming very close to Earth today, NASA confirms
NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YL7, a 94-foot-wide space rock, will pass Earth on 4 January. Travelling at an incredible speed of 16,266 mph, this asteroid’s close approach highlights the ...
In ‘milestone’ moment, this Rose Parade float used 85% electric power
The self-built La Canada float for the 136th Rose Parade answers the question: Can a float run on battery-electric power?
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Solar wind squashed Uranus’s magnetosphere during Voyager 2 flyby
Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...
Look Up! The Northern Lights May Be Visible This Week—Here's How to See Them
As people around the world celebrated the New Year on December 31, the northern lights put on a colorful display to ring in ...