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This video combines two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The frame on the left...
This natural-color mosaic showing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at "Valinor Hills" was acquired by the agency's...
On October 19, Comet Siding Spring will pass within 88,000 miles of Mars – just one third of the distance from the...
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is viewed by one of the hazard cameras aboard the Perseverance rover during the...
The solar panel of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's solar panel as seen by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th flight on Aug. 3, 2023....
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieves powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet, hovering...
This image was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter — and the first powered, controlled...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its rotor blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface — the first instance of powered, controlled flight...
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used data from an airborne radar to measure...
In this footage captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021, the agency's...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers and rotates over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on...
This sparkling jumble is Messier 5 — a globular cluster consisting of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the vibrant core of the galaxy NGC 3125. Discovered by John...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were...
Thanks to Discovery's return to flight mission, scientists at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will for the...
So Coldplay isn't the only one to see a sky full of stars, these are 22K light-years away Located approximately...
This image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully...
More than 9,000 years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption created a huge caldera on the southern end of Onekotan...
Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The...
This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of...