Rocket launches, space exploration, and the missions pushing beyond Earth's orbit.
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“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]
The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.
"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."
"I Just Might" by Bruno Mars returns to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, earning a historic nineteenth week at the summit on the competitive tally.
PM Narendra Modi says successful launch will 'encourage countless youngsters to dream bigger and innovate fearlessly'.
India's first space-tech unicorn Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1 on Saturday.
JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4696. A vast filament appears to funnel material into an 800-light-year-wide spinning disk, where gas races around at up to 600 kilometers per second. The findings suggest black holes may recycle their own fuel by heating gas with jets and later drawing the cooled material back in.
NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing (SWEET-15) […]
A Million-Panel ProjectNASAJuly 24, 2026
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and PresentNASAJuly 24, 2026
Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TVNASAJuly 23, 2026
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen TankNASAJuly 23, 2026
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at MarsNASAJuly 23, 2026