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A "doorway" that leads to where? NASA's Curiosity aims to find out. There is a "doorway" on Mars, and it is not a hoax or a conspiracy set by NASA.

A new decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends NASA fully support NEO Surveyor, a space-based survey designed to discover and measure asteroids and comets that could pose an impact hazard to Earth. Amy Mainzer, a professor of planetary sciences, leads the effort. 

The National Space Society will honor the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Helicopter Team with the NSS Space Pioneer Award at the 2022 International Space Development Conference® (ISDC®). The conference runs from May 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA.

Perseverance's Selfie at "Rochette": NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed "Rochette," on

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Known as the Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, it designates a Uranus Orbiter and Probe as the highest-priority flagship mission.

There’s no proof that life exists anywhere but Earth. But two SDSU researchers are working on a way to find molecular traces of life on Mars.

NASA recently announced that its Mars rover, Perseverance, has collected its seventh rock sample from the Red Planet. The rover is expected to collect one more sample before it heads to the Jezero Crater's ancient river delta to find signs of ancient Martian life.

NASA recently reported that its Martian helicopter, Ingenuity, has completed its 20th flight on the Red Planet, exceeding expectations by a factor of four.

Luke Skywalker famously said if there was a bright center of the universe, Tatooine was the planet it was farthest from. That didn't stop it from becoming the most famous planet in a galaxy far, far away, smack in the middle of one of the most successful pop culture franchises of all time.