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The Perseid meteor shower will dazzle in the early morning hours of Aug. 13. Plus, a popular planet shows up in the night sky.

If Mt. Saint Helens erupts again, a team of scientists and engineers will be monitoring with space age technology from NASA.

Before astronauts could walk its surface, NASA/JPL's robotic explorers had to fly past, slam into, and land on the moon.

Engineers continue crab-driving a test rover at JPL in an effort to plan how to dislodge Spirit from loose sand on Mars.

Early astronomers like Galileo used telescopes to map the Milky Way galaxy. This month, you can see the Milky Way in the late evening.

JPL engineers are trying out maneuvers with a test rover on Earth, to plan an escape on Mars for Spirit.

Rover Project Manager John Callas explains how getting a test rover stuck in a sandbox on Earth may help get Spirit out of a predicament on Mars.

Take a close-up tour of the L.A. area, courtesy of the space-based ASTER instrument.

Looking for an inexpensive stay-cation? Join JPL scientist Mike Abrams for a space-based flyover tour of California.

While the Spirit rover is embedded on Mars, engineers are working to create a 'Mars-scape' on Earth to test an escape plan.

NASA's Cassini has found salt in Saturn's E ring, hinting that the moon Encelaus could have an underground liquid reservoir, perhaps even an ocean.

Being a rover on Mars, one can encounter trying times and triumph. Spirit and Opportunity are currently experiencing both.

Take a closer look at a glittering collection of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars in the globular cluster M-13.

The structure and nature of the universe has puzzled and fascinated people for thousands of years.

From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a closer look at four possible landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover.