NASA
Curiosity Marks 14 Years on Mars by Doing Science, Because That's What It Does
Curiosity celebrates 14 years on Mars by doing what it does best: climbing mountains, analyzing rocks, and making geologists very happy.
2026-08-18
NASA
2026-08-01
NASA
Curiosity Approaches a 'Break in the Rock Record,' Which Sounds Dramatic but Is Basically Just Geology
NASA's Curiosity rover is about to cross an 'erosional supersurface' on Mars, which is basically a missing page in the planet's rock diary, and scientists are very excited about it.
2026-07-30
SpaceNews
Sophia Space and Caltech Patent Space Data Centers: Because Where Better to Store Your Cat Videos Than Orbit?
Sophia Space and Caltech patent a modular, solar-powered data center for orbit, solving the age-old problem of where to put your data when Earth's real estate just isn't remote enough.
2026-07-24
NASA
Curiosity Rover Engineers: The Unsung Heroes of Mars Get Their Due (Again)
NASA's Curiosity rover team thanks engineers for keeping the Mars robot alive, un-stuck, and productively poking rocks for over 12 years.
2026-07-17
NASA
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Object Has an Identity Crisis: It’s a Comet
NASA scientists discover a near-Earth object thought to be an asteroid is actually a comet, because space also enjoys a good plot twist.
2026-07-09
NASA
NASA Scientists Fly a WWII Plane Over the Arctic to Figure Out How Fast the Ice Is Actually Melting
NASA sends vintage aircraft and cutting-edge sensors to the Arctic to measure melting ice, because apparently satellites weren't enough.
2026-07-01
NASA
Caltech Hires Astrophysicist Who Once Wrote to JPL for Space Pictures as Its New President
Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist who once wrote to JPL for space pictures as a kid, is now Caltech's 10th president - and he's bringing a plan to invest in 'blue-sky' ideas and maybe get a window office.
2026-06-16
NASA
NASA Lets Humans On Campus for 90th Birthday, But Only If They Can Get Tickets Before the Scalpers Do
JPL turns 90 and invites the public to ogle its hardware - if they can snag a ticket before the bots do.
2026-04-28
NASA
Curiosity Rover Takes Yet Another Stunning Selfie of Mars, Because It Can
Curiosity delivers another 1.5-billion-pixel masterpiece of Martian boxwork formations, making Earth panoramas look like potato-quality selfies.
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