This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.

About the Asteroid Watch Dashboard The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, ...

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope ...

Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a ...

Throughout the primary mission, about once per week, AutoNav was invoked by the operating sequence to allow it to acquire optical navigation images. It turned the spacecraft and the integrated camera ...

Roughly the size of a briefcase, Lunar Flashlight is a very small satellite being developed and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will use near-infrared lasers and an onboard ...

Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and ...

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...

In this activity, students will: Work individually or in teams of two to construct and launch paper rockets using a teacher-built PVC-pipe launcher. Following the flight of their rocket, calculate the ...

Shaken, spun, baked, and blasted, the Griffin-1 spacecraft was put through weeks of tests to show it can survive the conditions of launch through lunar landing. A commercial lander that will be at the ...

Students analyze and interpret topographic contour maps to describe their three-dimensional structure while learning about technology used to map the seafloor, Earth's surface, and other worlds.