NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

NASA's Opportunity Rover Sends Ominous Photo Marking the End of 15 Years of Exploration on Mars The universe has always drawn humanity towards it, and throughout the centuries, humans have looked up ...

Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees.

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of studying the Red Planet.

Of all the threats that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk hurled at one another as their alliance fell apart, those targeting Musk’s contracts with the US government have the potential to do the ...

Got a Space Nerd in your car, then you have to visit a NASA site. NASA Visitor Centers are scattered across the U.S. and are ...