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What are some skywatching highlights in August 2020? See the Moon posing with various planets throughout the month, plus catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars today by successfully launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a ULA Atlas V rocket.

To get ready for the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, NASA invited the public to join a global, collective #CountdownToMars project.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration.

In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet next spring.

What's Up for July? How about some moons with those giant planets? Mars after midnight. And are the stars of Mars the same as ours?

What are some skywatching highlights you can see in June 2020? Look for the Summer Triangle rising in the east after sundown, keep tabs on the morning planets and June 20 brings the solstice.

Getting a Mars rover built, tested and to the launch pad is a feat that requires the dedication of hundreds of team members.

Watch as NASA-JPL engineers test the Sample Caching System on the Perseverance Mars rover.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lives up to its name by enduring a series of tests to prepare for its journey to the Red Planet.

By chilling atom clouds to just above absolute zero, or the coldest temperature matter can reach, Cold Atom Lab enables scientists to directly observe unique atomic behaviors.

What astronomy highlights can you see in the sky in May 2020? Venus, Sirius and the Milky Way. With so many of us staying home these days, here's a look into the sky at dusk and dawn.

Where did life originate on Earth? Could the process hold clues for finding life elsewhere?

What are some astronomy highlights in the sky in April 2020? This month, Venus visits the Pleiades; Mars, Jupiter and Saturn begin their breakup; and we ask, "What is the Moon illusion?"

NASA Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada guides this tour of the rover's view of the Martian surface.

Looking for astronomy highlights for March 2020? This month, early risers enjoy a planetary grouping of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the early morning sky.

Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth is a historic undertaking that starts with the launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover.

What are the skywatching highlights of February 2020?

After 16 years of unveiling the infrared universe, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has left a singular legacy.

A new NASA-funded planet-hunting instrument has been installed on the WIYN telescope, on Arizona’s Kitt Peak.

What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020?

On Dec. 17, 2019, engineers took NASA’s next Mars rover for its first spin.

What can you see in the December sky? Beautiful pairings of Venus, Saturn and Mars with the crescent Moon throughout the month, at sunrise and sunset.

Could Mars ever have supported life?

See how the odd orbits Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other, as they race around the planet. Researchers call it a "dance of avoidance."

Highlights of the November sky include how to watch as Mercury transits the Sun.

NASA's InSight lander on Mars is trying to use its robotic arm to get the mission’s heat flow probe, or mole, digging again.

What can you see in the October sky?

What's Up for September? Following the crescent Moon, the September equinox and — wait — where did Mars go?

See NASA’s next Mars rover quite literally coming together inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The Mars 2020 Rover is preparing to launch to the Red Planet in July 2020, but it doesn't have a name yet.

In the August sky, look for the "shooting stars" of the annual Perseid meteor shower for some stargazing delights.

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the legs and wheels — otherwise known as the mobility suspension — on the Mars 2020 rover.

LEMUR belongs to a new generation of robots being built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that can crawl, walk and even climb rock walls.

The Mars 2020 mission is facing the most challenging landing yet on the Red Planet.

As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, here are five things to know about the Moon that you can share with others.

Can we fly on Mars? The laws of physics may say it's near impossible, but actually flying a heavier-than-air vehicle on the Red Planet is much harder than that.

NASA InSight scientist/engineer Troy Hudson gives us the game plan for getting the mission's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars.

What's up in the June sky? Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest, Mercury and Mars appear ultra-close and how you can observe the Moon's tilted orbit.

Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars.

After spending the better part of a year exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has moved to a new part of Mount Sharp.

What's up in the May sky? A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley's Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs and a "blue moon" on May 18th.

NASA's OCO-3 mission is ready for launch to the International Space Station. This follow-on to OCO-2 brings new techniques and new technologies to carbon dioxide observations of Earth from space.

What can you see in the April sky? The Moon visits Mars in the evening, and later joins Saturn and Jupiter for a spot of tea. Also, how to find Polaris, the North Star.

What can you see in the March sky? Jupiter and other planets in the morning, a change of seasons and an open star cluster called the Beehive.

Drive along with NASA's Opportunity Mars rover and hear the voices of scientists and engineers behind the mission.

What can you see in the February sky? Stars and planets with distinct red and blue colors, like Mars and Sirius.

NASA's InSight has been busy.

An animated flyover of the Martian surface

Forty-one years after it launched into space, NASA's Voyager 2 probe has exited our solar bubble and entered the region between stars.