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NASA’s plucky Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, is about to embark on its 49th flight on the red planet. The diminutive drone-like aircraft arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February 2021. The rover’s primary goal is to search for evidence of ancient life on the distant planet, and Ingenuity has been assisting by using its

After 15 years in space, NASA’s AIM mission is ending. In a brief blog post spotted by Gizmodo, the agency said Thursday it was ending operational support for the spacecraft due to a battery power failure. NASA first noticed issues with AIM’s battery in 2019, but the probe was still sending a “significant amount of

Science & Nature The new animation shows the gamma-ray sky’s frenzied activity during a year of observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard...

Last year, NASA's DART spacecraft successfully completed its mission: To collide with an asteroid called Dimorphos to see if it was possible to change the trajectory of any potentially planet-killing space rock. Scientists from the DART team have been analyzing the data collected from the mission since then, and they've now published five papers in

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is currently traveling through the solar system on its way to study the Trojan asteroids in the orbit of Jupiter. The original plan was for the mission to make its first close approach to an asteroid in 2025, but a new plan will see the spacecraft make a flyby of a bonus

NASA’s Juno spacecraft returned to nominal operations on December 29th, 2022, after spending 12 days in safe mode. The craft went into the protective mode in response to a memory anomaly that occurred on December 14th. The space agency stated that the incident corrupted only a small portion of data.Read This Article on Review Geek

This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA's Perseverance rover isn't alone in the Jezero Crater on Mars. Its overachieving companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, is still taking to the air. Percy's an avid photographer, but it hasn't taken a lot of photos of elusive Ingenuity. There's a new

This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA's Perseverance rover isn't alone in the Jezero Crater on Mars. Its overachieving companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, is still taking to the air. Percy's an avid photographer, but it hasn't taken a lot of photos of elusive Ingenuity. There's a new