Hubble catches rare view of a comet crumbling
NASA and ESA have released new images from the Hubble Space Telescope of a comet breaking up as it exits the solar system, captured as part of study recently published in the journal Icarus. The image...
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NASA will try its Artemis II launch again in early April
NASA will soon give it another go on April Fools' Day. On Thursday, NASA said it's targeting April 1 at 6:24 PM ET for the Artemis II mission's next launch attempt. In case that date doesn't pan out,...
NASA's Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover completed its first Mars drives planned entirely by artificial intelligence, using vision-language models to autonomously identify safe routes across the Martian terrain. The system analyzed orbital images and terrain data to determine waypoints, reducing dependence on human planners and demonstrating how AI can enable more efficient autonomous exploration of distant worlds with significant communication delays.
NASA's crewed Artemis II launch gets pushed back again, this time due to a helium issue
It looks like a March launch is no longer in the cards for Artemis II, NASA's first crewed trip to the moon's vicinity since the final Apollo mission over 50 years ago. While preparations were underwa...
NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehea...
From sea to space, this robot is on a roll
Rishi Jangale and Derek Pravecek with RoboBall III. Image credit: Emily Oswald/Texas A&M Engineering. By Alyssa Schaechinger While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the Robotics...
NASA moves Artemis 2 launch to March after hydrogen leak during testing
NASA started making the final preparations for the Artemis 2 mission in early January, with the hopes of opening its launch window as soon as February 6. After issues showed up during the mission's we...
NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars
NASA successfully used Anthropic's Claude AI model to plot a route for the Perseverance rover on Mars in December, marking the first time an LLM has been used to autonomously pilot the spacecraft. Claude analyzed years of rover data and waypoint imagery to map a 400-meter path through Jezero Crater, with NASA engineers estimating the AI approach will cut route-planning time in half and enable more frequent rover drives and scientific data collection.
Mars rovers serve as scientists' eyes and ears from millions of miles away - here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life
Scientists absorb data on monitors in mission control for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. NASA/Bill Ingalls, CC BY-NC-ND. By Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College NASA's search for evidence of past life on M...
Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts
After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for 2026, and one that largely preserves its scientific capabilities. On Thursday, the Senate pass...
Trapped by moon dust: The physics error that fooled NASA for years
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uncovered a critical flaw in how lunar and Martian rovers are tested on Earth. Simulations revealed that test results have been misleading for decades...
In Flight With NASA: CMU Tests Space Tech in Microgravity
Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students recently experienced something few ever have: weightlessness. Aboard a plane that follows an unusual flight path - steep climbs followed by dramatic div...
CMU Researchers Contribute to NASA's Autonomous Robot Snake
Carnegie Mellon University researchers teamed up with scientists at NASA to develop a robot capable of searching underwater oceans on distant planets for signs of life. NASA's Exobiology Extant Life S...
The story behind how Amazon integrated Alexa into NASA’s Orion spacecraft
From physical constraints to acoustic challenges, learn how Amazon collaborated with NASA and Lockheed Martin to get Alexa to work in space.
For Neha Rungta, it's the journey that matters
Rungta had a promising career with NASA, but decided the stars aligned for her at Amazon.