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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies again as first drone on Rose Parade float
The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
The Mars Helicopter That Survived 72 Flights and Changed Planetary Exploration
Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...
Asteroid AB 2025 Set for a Thrilling Close Encounter, Passing Just 1.2 Million Miles from Earth
Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles.
In ‘milestone’ moment, this Rose Parade float used 85% electric power
The self-built La Canada float for the 136th Rose Parade answers the question: Can a float run on battery-electric power?
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Solar wind squashed Uranus’s magnetosphere during Voyager 2 flyby
Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...
Look Up! The Northern Lights May Be Visible This Week—Here's How to See Them
As people around the world celebrated the New Year on December 31, the northern lights put on a colorful display to ring in ...
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New year on Mars: Avalanches, icy explosions, and the arrival of spring
Mars experiences explosive changes during spring. Ice sublimates directly into gas, causing avalanches and geysers.