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Tom Hanks narrates an immersive exhibit that is open at Saunders Castle at Park Plaza in Boston, giving you a unique ...
Celebrate the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with your kids at Space Exploration Day at MOSI. Read about all the fun things to do!
NASA's Curiosity rover has been capturing images of Mars as scientists continue to study the planet's structures and surface.Curiosity's goal as it travels across Mars is to look for unique signs of ...
Y’all got wonder or not, whenever you look up at the star studded sky and the moon, what else might be up ... Image from National Air and Space Museum. Kuiper Belt, a cold icy donut. Image from NASA.
NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.
John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last ...
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.
January 2020: Chosen to carry a water-hunting rover to the moon. The same year it moved to Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood, Astrobotic secured a $199.5 million NASA contract to deliver a lunar ...
Chinese rover finds strange rocks that may come from deep inside the moon. The record-setting Chang’e-4 mission might have spotted minerals that would reveal long-held secrets about the moon's ...
A model of the VIPER rover, which was supposed to launch in late 2023. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s VIPER is designed to search for water ice around the Moon’s south pole. But instead of ...
The Lunar Electric Rover is a prototype for the vehicle that NASA hopes to send with astronauts to the moon by 2020. NASA. Brent Garry peers down from a National Air and Space Museum walkway at ...
But before any lunar water is used to irrigate crops for hungry astronauts, NASA’s mission planners want to ensure edible plants can even grow on the moon in the first place. That’s LEAF’s task.