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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this photo during its fourth flight on April 30, 2021. The image shows “Airfield B,” where Ingenuity will seek to land on its fifth flight, on May 7.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will head to new airfield today on 5th flight

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity is scheduled to make its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), a jaunt that will be unlike anything the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper has attempted so far.

An image of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars composed of 57 separate photographs the rover took on May 12, 2019.

Radiation resistance is baked into the Perseverance Mars rover. Here's why that's important.

By Elizabeth Howell

Xilinx's radiation-resistant integrated circuits help power cameras and instruments on NASA's Perseverance rover.

Spaceflight

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 7, 1992 during the STS-49 mission.

On This Day in Space! May 7, 1992: Space shuttle Endeavour launches on maiden voyage

By Hanneke Weitering

On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will head to new airfield today on 5th flight

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity is scheduled to make its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), a jaunt that will be unlike anything the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper has attempted so far.

Science & Astronomy

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will head to new airfield today on 5th flight

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity is scheduled to make its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), a jaunt that will be unlike anything the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper has attempted so far.

Mystery of strange new 'dune' auroras solved, scientists say

By Elizabeth Howell

A Finnish-led team has new insights into auroral "dunes" first reported in scientific literature a year ago.

Search For Life

The Library of the Great Silence will feature artifacts of transition, like this handaxe.

'Library of the Great Silence' invites E.T. to share long-term survival strategies

By Mike Wall

Intelligent aliens will soon have a space here on Earth where they can share how they made it through their technological adolescence.

Artist's impression of a primitive ocean on Mars, which may have had more water than the Arctic Ocean on Earth. (Most of that water was later lost to space.)

Mystery solved? Heat-trapping clouds may explain ancient Mars' rivers and lakes

By Mike Wall

Cloudy skies may have allowed water to flow on Mars long ago.

Artist's conception of a violent flare erupting from the star Proxima Centauri.

Proxima Centauri shoots out humongous flare, with big implications for alien life

By Harry Baker

Scientists have detected the largest stellar flare ever recorded from Proxima Centauri. The finding changes what we know about stellar flares and the potential for alien life around red dwarfs.