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NASA's Psyche Flyby Captures "Rarely Seen Views of the Red Planet" as Mars Appears as a Thin Red Crescent

Discover more about NASA's Psyche mission and how it recently tested its instruments on the Red Planet.
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Apophis 2029 flyby gives NASA a rare planetary defense test

Asteroid 99942 Apophis is set to make an unusually close pass by Earth on April 13, 2029, but the important part is not ...

Mesmerizing NASA time-lapse reveals Mars’s craters, polar ice caps and deserts

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid beyond Mars—and it’s enjoying the scenic route. In a flyby ...

Mars’ desolate desert landscape captured by asteroid-bound NASA spacecraft

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

Empty seashells became the ocean’s first ready-made homes 470 million years ago, helping create an entirely new ecosystem

Approximately 470 million years ago, ancient mollusc shells started to serve as habitats for small sea creatures, initiating a profound ecological transformation across global ocean ecosystems. These ...