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The lander has taken measures to conserve energy; engineers aim to return to normal operations next week.

The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon, Ice Moon, the Moon after Yule, and the Old Moon.

This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about Mars.

Deploying a new space telescope; deflecting an asteroid with a spacecraft; and visiting a metal-rich asteroid. NASA has a busy 2022 calendar.

Our 2021 round-up of NASA planetary science is packed with the year’s most spectacular images, ground-breaking discoveries, and incredible mission events.

The findings highlight the diversity of samples scientists associated with the Mars Sample Return program will have to study.

With its recent 17th flight, the Red Planet rotorcraft reaches an airborne milestone the team never considered achievable.

Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out in the coming decade.

Middle schoolers who have pushed past obstacles will be celebrated with a personal message from Perseverance.

Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it’ll be tricky, even from up close.

An artistic interpretation of Curiosity’s view high up on a Martian mountain was created by mission team members.

Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video of the helicopter.

OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of tests to assess the risk of driving hazards on Mars.

A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface.

The next full Moon is the Beaver Moon, and there will be a near-total lunar eclipse.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson laid out the path forward for early Artemis missions that will pave the way for lunar surface missions.

NASA scientists are calling for a framework that provides context for findings related to the search for life.

The public can help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Catch Mars mania as an exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the U.S. with lifelike models of Perseverance and Ingenuity.

Two microphones aboard the six-wheeled spacecraft add a new dimension to the way scientists and engineers explore the Red Planet.

JPL's lucky peanuts are an unofficial tradition at big mission events.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson met with elected officials about Earth science and visited mission control for the Perseverance Mars rover.

The next full Moon is the Hunter's Moon, the Travel Moon, and the Lucy Moon.

NASA, along with the European Space Agency, is developing a campaign to return the Martian samples to Earth.

A new paper details how the hydrological cycle of the now-dry lake at Jezero Crater is more complicated than originally thought.