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NASA Is Going To Crash A Probe Right Smack Dab Into An Asteroid For A Really Good Reason

Online

5 days ago

NASA Is Going To Crash A Probe Right Smack Dab Into An Asteroid For A Really Good Reason

Jason Torchinsky

How NASA’s Perseverance Landed On Mars: An Aerospace Engineer Breaks It Down In Fascinating Detail

Cars

1 month ago

How NASA’s Perseverance Landed On Mars: An Aerospace Engineer Breaks It Down In Fascinating Detail

Brian Kirby

Science & Health

2 months ago

The 5 Biggest Tech Failures on Mars

Isaac Schultz

Space fans all over the world breathed a sigh of relief on Friday when NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the surface of Mars safely. Humanity’s recent spate of bad luck aside, Mars is famous for ending missions before they even begin, with its inhospitable climate and the whole being-225-million-kilometres-away thing. Though…

Here Are the First Images of Mars Taken by NASA’s Perseverance Rover

Science & Health

2 months ago

Here Are the First Images of Mars Taken by NASA’s Perseverance Rover

George Dvorsky

NASA Is Dropping a New Rover on Mars. Here’s What Could Go Wrong

Science & Health

2 months ago

NASA Is Dropping a New Rover on Mars. Here’s What Could Go Wrong

George Dvorsky

Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right — and how things could quickly go sideways — when Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing.

Finding the Perfect Landing Spot for NASA’s Moon Mission Will Be Tricky

Science & Health

2 months ago

Finding the Perfect Landing Spot for NASA’s Moon Mission Will Be Tricky

George Dvorsky

After Two Years of Frustration, NASA Finally Nixes Its Martian Mole

Science & Health

3 months ago

After Two Years of Frustration, NASA Finally Nixes Its Martian Mole

George Dvorsky

Online

5 years ago

This Rover Isn’t On Mars

Jamie Condliffe

Image Cache: This looks like it could the latest rover to land on the surface of Mars. But in fact it’s a test of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission happening right here on Earth.