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China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe captures epic video of Red Planet during orbital arrival

One video, taken by Tianwen-1's small engineering survey sub-system camera for monitoring a solar array, shows Mars entering into frame followed by an incredible view of the edge of Mars' atmosphere, or "atmospheric limb.".

Surprisingly mature galaxy in the infant universe suggests galaxies form faster than we thought

Gas and dust (shown in blue and red, respectively) in the galaxy ALESS 073.1 observed when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old. (Image: © Federico Lelli).

Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA Shuttle Scientist, Dies at 75

The New York Times

The New York Times

As the space agency's first female payload specialist, she conducted experiments about the impact of weightlessness on astronauts' immune systems and loss of bone mass.

Meet the orbiters that help rovers on Mars talk to Earth

CNN

CNN

Mars is far from a flat, barren landscape. Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. HiRISE, onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and ...

Perseverance will make sure it has a safe landing

Next to run the gauntlet of the Mars curse is NASA's Perseverance rover. It'll attempt its long-awaited landing at Jezero Crater on February 18. The people at NASA have given the Perseverance rover some finely tuned tools to get it to the Martian surface safely ...

CaSSIS mission: The camera capturing Mars' craters and canyons

BBC News

BBC News

image captionCaSSIS captures craters like this one, which is located in the Mawrth Vallis region of Mars. It is a busy time for Mars at the moment. This month the Red Planet entered its new year, what is known as Year 36, and it has not long been overtaken by ...

Scientists find clump of black holes inside the heart of globular cluster (video)

The globular cluster NGC 6397, as imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (Image: © NASA, ESA, T. Brown, S. Casertano, and J. Anderson (STScI)).

ESA Mars orbiters support NASA Perseverance landing

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is due to land on the Red Planet at 21:43 CET on 18 February 2021. In order to communicate with Earth from its landing site in Jezero Crater, the rover will rely on spacecraft orbiting Mars to relay the images and other ...

After 300 million miles, NASA's Perseverance rover set for Mars touchdown

Florida Today

Florida Today

Average temperatures that hover around negative 81 degrees. A thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere sometimes rendered opaque by planet-wide dust storms that can even be seen from Earth. Gravity that's just one-third of what humans have evolved to ...

Goddard's Core Flight software chosen for NASA's Lunar Gateway

As part of the Artemis program, NASA will send astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence by the end of the decade. The Gateway will provide a waypoint for lunar exploration and allow astronauts to live and work in lunar orbit as well as ...