April 7, 2021 NASA gets first weather report from Mars rover landing site Engineers at NASA have received the first weather report from Mars' Jezero Crater, where the agency's Perseverance rover landed in February.
April 6, 2021 SpaceX determines cause of Starship SN11 prototype crash SpaceX founder Elon Musk explained why the Starship prototype SN11 went up in flames last week.
April 2, 2021 NASA researchers discover first X-rays from Uranus Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected X-rays from the planet Uranus for the first time.
March 31, 2021 SEE IT: NASA's Curiosity rover takes Mars selfie NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released a stunning "selfie" taken by the Curiosity Mars rover on Tuesday.
March 31, 2021 Ingenuity Mars helicopter deploys to Martian surface, readies for flight NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Ingenuity Mars helicopter is readying for a historic mission.
March 30, 2021 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei readies for April flight to International Space Station NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is set to lift off aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on an April 9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
March 27, 2021 NASA's Orion capsule begins new water drop tests NASA engineers at the Virginia-based Langley Research Center have begun a new series of four water-impact drop tests using a test version of the agency's Orion spacecraft capsule.
March 25, 2021 Astronomers capture new polarized view of a black hole Scientists from the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration announced Wednesday that they had been able to map the magnetic fields around a black hole using polarized light waves for the first time, releasing a stunning image of the supermassive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy.
March 23, 2021 NASA previews first Mars helicopter flights: Every step taken is 'uncharted territory' NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the first-ever attempt at power and controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
March 20, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter completes tests, nears historic flight Ingenuity, NASA's miniature Mars helicopter, is nearly ready to make history with the first powered flight on another planet.
