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Perseverance Breaks Off-World Driving Record on Mars

Improved autonomous navigation is opening access to ancient Jezero Crater rocks, enabling extended study through 2028.

Mars’s Giant Dawn Cloud Linked to Exotic Ice Formation

Curiosity Releases Dawn Panorama Revealing Vast Yardang Layer on Mount Sharp

Webb and Spitzer Spectra Show Two Kinds of Giant Planetary Collisions

Saturn at Opposition Oct. 4 Offers Best Views of the Year

New Studies Show Enceladus Plume Grains Can Concentrate Ocean Chemicals

Mars North Polar Ice Far Cleaner Than Earlier Studies Found

Perseverance Finds Igneous Margin Unit Shaped by Three Distinct Water Episodes

Juice Executes Precise Earth Flyby to Boost Speed and Redirect Toward Jupiter

New Studies Show Enceladus’ Plume Ice Can Concentrate Ocean Chemistry and Support Microbial Metabolism

Astronomers Report First Direct Radio Detection From an Exoplanet

Laboratory Tests Suggest Enceladus Ocean Could Support Methane-Producing Microbes

NASA Advances PRIMA Far‑Infrared Telescope Into Phase B

Isotopes Link Bennu, Ryugu and CI Meteorites to Ice‑Line Dust Reservoir

JUICE to Return for Sept. 28 Earth Flyby to Redirect Path to Jupiter

Radio Emission Localized to Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

Perseverance Reveals Three Distinct Water Alterations Recorded in Jezero’s Margin Unit

NASA Confirms McGetchin, a 728‑Foot Lunar Crater From a 2024 Impact

Roman Space Telescope Records First Light During Transit to L2

Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b as Youngest Known Planet