Celebrate Mars New Year Now Because The Next One Won’t Come Until 2026
Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...
NASA seeks participants for second year-long Mars mission simulation
NASA is looking for the next four-person crew to spend more than a year inside a Mars simulator located in Texas, to study ...
For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its workforce. On Wednesday, the ...
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NASA goes full throttle on Mars, but hits speed bumps on road to Venus
“I drive to work and I go to work on Mars.”— Art Thompson “This will be the most-watched extended mission in history at NASA,” Leshin said. In the meantime, JPL is still trying to ...
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The Top 10 Most Exciting Space Missions To Watch In 2023, Ranked
the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in 2023 and arrive at the asteroid in 2029 ...
JPL announces more cuts, expected to lay off more than 300 employees
The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge announced on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its ...
JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce
In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...
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Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission
Launched when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, the two Voyager spacecraft have endured almost half a century ...
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NASA made $76 billion for the US economy in 2023, three times more than its budget
When you picture NASA, you might see powerful rockets thundering into the sky or astronauts floating in the weightlessness of ...
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Without Jim Bridenstine, what’s next for NASA and its Mars Sample team?
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct Jim Bridenstine’s status with NASA’s Mars Sample team. We regret the error. Ever since resigning from his post ...
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NASA's Curiosity rover clocks 4,000 days on Mars
Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity ... Gale Crater, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2023JE008041 ...
Opinion - Can Jim Bridenstine rescue NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission?
If Bridenstine becomes administrator of NASA again, his first task would be to get the Artemis program on track.