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This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The location, "Airfield D" (the fourth airfield), is just east of the "Séítah" geologic unit.
Science

NASA is finishing its first off-world accident report

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

The 50 greatest innovations of 2024

By Popular Science Team

NASA South Pole Safety Challenge logo on lunar surface background
Science

NASA needs your help designing a gurney for the moon

By Andrew Paul

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it
Technology

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

By Andrew Paul

Concept art depicting Starship HLS on lunar surface with Earth in background
Science

New concept art shows how SpaceX’s Starship will transport Artemis III astronauts to the moon

By Andrew Paul

an astronaut on a spacewalk in a full spacesuit takes a selfie with earth in the background
Science

Six months in space is not that bad for your brain

By Laura Baisas

Gloved hand pointing to LignoSat wooden satellite prototype
Technology

World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths

By Andrew Paul

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with ISS Crew-9
Science

NASA warns SpaceX over safety issues after astronaut hospitalization

By Andrew Paul

Phobos passing across Sun as seen by Perseverance rover on Mars
Science

Googly-eyed potato eclipse filmed by NASA’s Perseverance rover

By Andrew Paul

a man wearing a NASA hat aboard the International Space Station squirts ketchup into his mouth. the ketchup comes out in one long stream
Science

See (and never unsee) a NASA astronaut eating ketchup in space

By Laura Baisas

A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.
Science

NASA unveils model of LISA, a satellite array for studying ripples in space-time

By Andrew Paul

Sierra Space TCPS machine
Science

ISS astronauts to test trash compactor that’s basically WALL-E

By Andrew Paul

a close-up of the planet jupiter's great red spot. it is a swirling red storm on the planet's more white and orange surface
Science

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

By Laura Baisas

mars the planet
Science

NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s

By Joel S. Levine / The Conversation

Voyager 2 diagram with equipment labeled
Science

NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power

By Andrew Paul

Lightning strike at night
Environment

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

By Andrew Paul

JUICE image of Earth's radiation belt
Science

NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt

By Andrew Paul

Satellite image of Hurricane Helene
Environment

What Hurricane Helene looks like from space

By Andrew Paul

A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom
Science

NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit

By Andrew Paul

Starliner docked with ISS with Earth in background
Science

NASA can explain Starliner’s spooky, pulsing sounds

By Andrew Paul