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Helio Highlights: October 2025

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: ...
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What’s Up: October 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...
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The Ancient Mars Variety Show

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a ...
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Perseverance’s SHERLOC Finds Organic Molecules in ‘Bright Angel’

This graph displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed Bright Angel.
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NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful ...
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What’s Up: September 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Saturn's spectacle, a Conjunction, and the Autumnal Equinox Saturn shines throughout the month, a conjunction ...
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Over Soroya Ridge & Onward!

Written by Eleanor Moreland, Ph.D. Student Collaborator at Rice University Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a ...
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been ...
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NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission Observes Interstellar Comet

Comet 3I/ATLAS Cataloguing the journey of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system. Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is just passing through – so we use all the tools at our ...
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NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, is a mixture of dust that formed in our solar system, ...
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Helio Highlights: June 2025

It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be ...
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What Is the Solar Wind?

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...