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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020.

Perseverance got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees.

Since the explosion of a star on Feb. 24, 1987, researchers have been hunting the squashed stellar core that should have been left behind.

New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing on the Red Planet on Feb. 18.

As astronomers discovered asteroids hiding in Jupiter’s Lagrange points, they began referring to them as “Trojan asteroids.”

Mission controllers have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

Perseverance captured video of its touchdown. This still image was taken from that footage, which is still being relayed to Earth and processed.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has sent back its first image(s) from the surface of the Red Planet.

NASA photographers capture intense and joyous moments as the Perseverance rover lands on Mars.

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as controllers confirmed that Perseverance has landed on Mars.

When the rover searches for fossilized microscopic life on the Red Planet, how will scientists know whether they’ve found it?