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For decades, it has passed over Mars like a rumor, glimpsed only sparingly by rovers and orbiters, its shadowy face watching down over Mars’ vermilion seas of sand and dust in silence. Phobos, named ...

This article has been revised to reflect NASA's updated plan for PROMISE to be a hybrid of both the Perseverance and Curiosity engineering testbeds, rather than the Perseverance testbed alone. The ...

This year, June 21 marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the beginning of summer. At this moment in Earth's journey around the Sun, our planet is positioned so that the north pole is ...

Around the time of Apollo 11, when Wernher von Braun was asked about what stood in the way of sending humans to Mars, he reportedly answered, “political will.” But recent events (including a medical ...

Saturn’s rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the Solar System, but most of us have no idea what they look like up close. The most famous pictures of the rings are from hundreds of millions ...

The House budget bill that includes NASA funding just cleared a key hurdle, advancing out of the Appropriations Committee. This is the first funding bill for FY 2027 to be released and reach this ...

Only days after NASA launched astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades, the White House’s budgeting office announced a plan to reduce NASA’s workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 NASA ...

If space is the final frontier, then it’s easy to imagine the Kuiper belt as the wilderness beyond the last ghost town. Out in the far reaches of the Solar System, there are up to millions of ...

Made of billions of pieces of ice and rock, Saturn’s rings stretch an astonishing 282,000 kilometers (175,000 miles) from the planet, making them visible from Earth through small telescopes and ...

After facing monumental challenges in 2025, NASA and the space science community have now landed in 2026 with a Senate-confirmed Administrator, a full budget, and a full calendar of events. This is a ...