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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of its robotic arm during sunset on Sept. 16, 2025.

This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility transmitting its 3-kilowatt laser beacon to the agency's…

This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025,…

This animation depicts NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter performing a 120-degree roll that increases the strength of its radar signal by…

This video captures a test of Perseverance's Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (gDRT) in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion…

Before drilling into the rocky outcrop nicknamed Kenmore, Perseverance abraded the rock to determine whether it was worthy of drilling.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this scene while looking out across a region filled with boxwork patterns, low ridges that…

NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the…

A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover…

This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud,…

Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter's moon…

One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill…

A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images…

This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov.…

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills…