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NASA releases otherworldly footage of solar eclipse on Mars
By Elizabeth Howell published
Last week, the Martian moon Phobos passed neatly between Mars and the sun. NASA's Perseverance rover caught the fortuitous eclipse on camera.
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an underground ocean scientists never believed could exist
By Robert Lea published
A new study of Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas finds evidence of a young, underground ocean that may be hospitable to early forms of life.
James Webb telescope makes ultra-rare detection of 2 planets orbiting dead stars
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected two alien planets orbiting white dwarfs, the collapsed husks of once-mighty stars. The discovery offers a hint of what our solar system will look like after the sun's eventual demise.
Ingenuity helicopter's final images reveal fatal rotor damage that brought it down on Mars
By Brandon Specktor published
The latest photos from NASA's immobile Ingenuity Mars helicopter reveal the extent of the rotor blade damage it sustained on its fateful 72nd flight.
Are they exomoons or not? Scientists debate existence of 1st moons seen beyond our solar system
By Robert Lea published
Team "pro-exomoon" is back to defend the discovery of the first and only exomoons potentially seen by humanity.
Space photo of the week: Ancient 'labyrinth of night' on Mars, one of the biggest mazes in the solar system
By Jamie Carter published
Take a trip through the maze-like valleys and canyons of a unique place in the solar system: Mars' 'labyrinth of night.'
NASA's Perseverance rover may already have found signs of life on Mars, discovery of ancient lake sediments reveals
By Ben Turner published
The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rover's location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils. But we won't know for sure until we fetch the sample.
NASA's historic Ingenuity helicopter ends its 3-year Mars mission, suffering rotor damage on 72nd flight
By Brandon Specktor published
NASA's Ingeunity helicopter has finally ended its three-year mission on Mars after sustaining irreparable rotor damage on its 72nd flight over the Red Planet. It was only designed to fly five times.
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