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Since its launch in 2001, Odyssey has looped around Mars more than ninety-four thousand times.

Equipped with stereo cameras, image sensors, and a wireless radio, these robots are ready to collect data in hard-to-reach places.

A sense of humor helped the Apollo astronauts deal with the lunar darkness and utter isolation as they became the first to travel to another world.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test proved that asteroid deflection technology was more than a unique experiment.

This spacecraft is hurtling toward its destination at nearly sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. At that speed, Lucy should encounter her first Trojan asteroid in 2027.

Robots have been helping humans explore space for a long time.

This lunar mountain towers above the landscape, carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. And now, the mountain has a new name.

When satellites run out of fuel, or just stop working, they are essentially orbiting around Earth “dead.”

NASA has a program specifically dedicated to making sure spacecraft are clean before they leave the launchpad.

The only way that we’re going to evolve with fire on our landscape is to learn how to live with good fire on our landscape again.

What’s it like landing on Mars?

Early in the 1960’s NASA began a musical ritual to help orient the astronauts as they began their daily schedule.

Join the celebration and learn more about some of the women who make a difference at NASA and in the world.

To NASA, green is more than a color worn on St. Patrick’s Day.

NASA has released its first interactive graphic novel. From her childhood dreams of space travel, fictional character Callie Rodriguez takes us on her journey to the Moon.

During solar magnetic storms, explosions may hurl clouds of magnetized particles into space.

Technology drives exploration and the space economy.

Pollen season has arrived, and it may be time to change your air filter. But changing those dirty filters can prove complicated, especially if that filter is in space.

Congratulations, NASA for two entries on TIME’s 2022 list of inventions that not only change history but benefit the future of humanity.

If you look hard enough, you can see art in the science.