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December 31, 20251 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmColliding Spiral Galaxies Captured in Sparkling DetailAstronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to…

The US Senate has confirmed the billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become Donald Trump’s Nasa administrator. The confirmation makes an advocate of Mars missions and…

December 17, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmJared Isaacman Confirmed to Head NASA at Pivotal Moment for Space ScienceBillionaire Jared Isaacman is taking the…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into…

Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to…

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue.The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)…

It used to be that once your star had fallen in Donald Trump’s orbit, it was destined never to rise again. Any number of discarded former…

November 28, 20251 min readNASA Recruits Mars Perseverance Rover to Monitor Sun’s ActivityMars is passing behind the sun, giving NASA’s Perseverance rover a view of the…

Nasa released close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system.Discovered over the summer, the comet known…

November 13, 20254 min readThis Mars-Bound Spacecraft Will Test Jared Isaacman’s Vision for NASANASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary…