JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to access. Ingenuity was tethered to Perseverance for communication, but the ...

January 2025 offers a variety of captivating celestial events. Key highlights include the Venus and Moon conjunction, ...

Space science and exploration hit exciting new heights over the last 12 months. We learned that galaxies are much bigger than ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest, and quickest, meteor showers of the year. Here’s what you need to know ...

The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the New Year, has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather ...

However, the Quadrantid influx is sharply peaked: six hours before and after maximum, these blue meteors appear at only half ...

The meteors could be plentiful. NASA says the Quadrantids' peak could have as many as 120 meteors per hour, according to the Associated Press. And while these meteors don’t have long tails, the heads ...

Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 93 orbital rocket launches during 2024. Looking ahead, will this year's ...

Under clear skies, a “planet parade” should be visible in Ontario and beyond this month. Four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — should appear in the night sky for the first couple of hours ...

From 1986 to 2021, moss-covered areas on the Antarctic Peninsula expanded from less than one square kilometer to nearly 12 ...

There's a full moon shining in every calendar month of 2025 on these dates: Jan. 13, Feb. 12, March 14, April 13, May 12, ...

That's also the date of a total lunar eclipse for the Americas, according to NASA. The moon's phases in March are: North ...