These discoveries illustrate NASA’s multifaceted exploration efforts in planetary science, astrophysics, lunar research, and Earth observation, driving forward humanity’s knowledge of space.

This is because these objects formed “billions of years ago when liquid water still existed on the Red Planet. Water carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks and later dried, leaving the hardened minerals behind,” as explained by NASA in a recent statement.

NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon, and those astronauts will get there thanks to help from rocket engines mad

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area of exoplanet sizes."

NASA must confront its budget pressures, reduce bureaucracy, and focus on mission-driven culture in order to achieve its goals of returning to the Moon and going to Mars, while also developing a commercial orbital economy and prioritizing high-value science and commercial work aboard the International Space Station.

William Borucki at a 2009 news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., about the scientific observations coming from the Kepler spacecraft. Paul E. Alers/NASA

By 2010, NASA and Science were more careful not to let the media get in the way of the story they wanted to sell. News outlets received a cryptic message about a big press event, where officials ...