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Perseverance Image Marks Rover Drive Record on Mars
NASA released a navigation-camera image from Perseverance's Oct. 11, 2026, drive, during which the rover's total distance surpassed Opportunity's 28.06 miles.
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Perseverance Finds Light-Toned Boulders Outside Jezero Crater
NASA's Perseverance rover has spent six months exploring Lac de Charmes beyond Jezero crater's western rim, where it encountered a vast field of unusual light-toned rocks and is now testing whether they eroded from a breccia outcrop.
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Hubble archival data points to possible second-generation planet at white dwarf
Astronomers re-examining 1999 Hubble data from the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 report strong niobium signatures, a chemical clue they say could indicate a planet formed from material ejected by a dying star.
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Sharpless Catalog of 313 Nebulas Assembled in One Image
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 2, 2026 features Bing Xin's compilation of the entire Sharpless Catalog, 313 objects captured over roughly 800 hours from dark skies in Eastern China and Inner Mongolia.
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Webb telescope reveals hidden stars and protostars in NGC 7129
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new view of the stellar nursery NGC 7129, about 3,300 light-years away, showing stars and protostars that were previously hidden by dust.
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Crew-13 Arrives at Station, Crew-12 Prepares for Return
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 reached the International Space Station on Oct. 1, bringing the orbiting population to 11 as four Crew-12 members prepare to head home.
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ESA Opens Hera Asteroid Mission to Guest Software Experiments
The European Space Agency is inviting researchers and companies to run software aboard its Hera asteroid mission, with selected ideas facing trial in a protected onboard environment from August 2027.
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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day features Curiosity selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge
A 2018 mosaic of 61 exposures taken by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager shows the rover at the south rim of Vera Rubin Ridge, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 3, 2026, explains.
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Hurricane Simon Skirts Mexico's Pacific Coast as Category 4 Storm
NASA satellite imagery captured Hurricane Simon as a category 4 storm near Mexico's Pacific coast on October 11, 2026, with sustained winds reaching 250 kilometers per hour and upper-atmosphere gravity waves radiating from the storm.
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Arctic Sea Ice Hits 2026 Minimum, Tying 10th-Lowest Mark
NASA and NSIDC report Arctic sea ice reached its 2026 minimum on September 12, covering about 4.6 million square kilometers and tying 2008, 2010 and 2025 for the 10th-lowest minimum in the satellite record.
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NASA Engineer Documents Data Gaps for Moon and Mars Planning
At NASA's Langley Research Center, aerospace engineer Richard Spolzino works on mission architecture and systems interoperability for Moon Base, turning unknowns about the Moon and Mars into formal data gaps that partners and industry can address.
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NASA Glenn Seeks Phase 1 Proposals for Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is inviting Phase 1 proposals for the design and construction of a new Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory, with submissions due by Oct. 30, 2026.