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Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.

When it comes to humanity, Earth is considered humans’ original birthplace. But a new radical theory not only upends this long-standing view about the humans’ origin but also deepens ...

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NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the ...

Here in southern New England, the land of four distinct seasons, spring is on our doorstep. This month's vernal equinox, the moment the sun crosses the equator from south to north, comes at 10:46 a.m.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Almost two years ago, a solar storm hit Earth, triggering auroras that were seen as far south as Mexico. The storm also reached Mars and was detected by a pair of ESA spacecraft, Mars Express and ...

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Mars just gave scientists a sound they have chased for decades. Not a photo. Not a rock sample. A signal. Researchers have confirmed the first Mars lightning whistler detection. It came from NASA’s ...