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NASA confirms support for delayed European Mars rover: ESABremen, Germany (AFP) Nov 26, 2025 NASA has confirmed that it will contribute to Europe's Martian rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028 after repeated delays, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday. ... more 
Chinese team runs long term Martian dust cycle simulation with GoMars modelTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 Chinese researchers have used a self-developed next generation Mars general circulation model, known as GoMars, to carry out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle spanning 50 Martian ... more 
Martian dust devils found to generate electrical sparksParis, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Electric discharges have been detected inside dust devils and dust storms on Mars for the first time, using sound recordings from the SuperCam microphone on NASAs Perseverance rover. Scientists from ... more 
Mars Rover Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Wet Climate in Jezero CraterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 NASA's Perseverance rover identified light-colored rocks in Jezero crater that consist of white, aluminum-rich kaolinite clay. These rocks formed after prolonged exposure to water leached other mine ... more |
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Cosmic rays drive urgent search for better protection before crewed trips to MarsNorwich, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 The first step on the Moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips - and dreaming of Mars beyond. Next year, Nasa's Artemis II mission wil ... more 
Scientists trace ancient mega watersheds on MarsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Billions of years ago, rainfall on Mars fed rivers that cut valleys, overtopped crater rims and carved canyons, with some flows likely reaching a northern ocean basin on the planet. Researcher ... more 
Martian butterfly crater reveals low angle impact and buried lava historyParis, France (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 ESA's Mars Express orbiter has observed an impact crater in Mars's northern lowlands whose shape resembles a butterfly, created when an incoming space rock struck the surface at a shallow angle. The ... more 
NASA desert drone trials refine navigation software for future Mars explorersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 To prepare new autonomous systems for Mars, NASA teams have been testing drones, a legged robot, and a winged flyer concept in harsh desert environments in California, New Mexico, and Virginia. The ... more |
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Bacterial partnership offers pathway to produce Mars regolith bricks for future habitatsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Human missions to Mars will require robust shelters that can be built without hauling heavy materials from Earth, pushing engineers and scientists to focus on in situ resource utilization of the pla ... more |
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Second CHAPEA Crew Begins Extended Mars Habitat Mission at NASA JohnsonLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 NASA's second CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission is underway with four volunteers - Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer - beginning a 378-day s ... more  
Mars clocks run ahead of Earth by microseconds each dayLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have produced the first detailed calculation of how fast time passes on Mars compared with Earth, providing a parameter that future h ... more  
NASA celebrates a decade of student contributions to space crop productionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025 In 2025, nearly 1,250 students in 71 classrooms participated in the Growing Beyond Earth Student Launch Chat, celebrating ten years of partnership between Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and NASA. ... more 
NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian MysteryPasadena, Calif. (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to subsurface observations of Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revisited and raised new questions about ... more |
ESCAPADE spacecraft capture first images while en route to MarsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 About a week after liftoff, the twin spacecraft of NASA's ESCAPADE mission returned their first images as they journey away from Earth. On November 21, one of the two spacecraft used its Visible and ... more  |
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NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestationMonrovia (AFP) Nov 25, 2025 Some of the world's best-known chocolate, from Mars to KitKat, is likely linked to deforestation in Liberia's rainforest despite many brands' claims of sustainability, according to research published by NGO Global Witness Tuesday. ... more 
Destination: Mars. First Stop: Iceland?Upton, NY (SPX) Nov 21, 2025 To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent its Mars rover "Per ... more 
NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLASPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2025 Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object - from the closest location any of the agency's spacecraft may get - that could reveal new details. At the start of October, ... more  
Blue Origin's New Glenn Nails First Ocean Booster LandingMaxwell AFB AL (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully made its way to orbit for the second time on Nov. 13, 2025. Although the second launch is never as flashy as the first, this mission is still significant ... more |
Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landingCape Canaveral (AFP) Nov 14, 2025 Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard, and in a breakthrough nailed the landing of its booster. ... more 
NASA twin spacecraft depart Earth orbit to begin Mars missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2025 NASA's ESCAPADE mission has initiated its journey as two identical spacecraft, designed to study Mars' magnetosphere, separated and deployed from Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage. Both probes wil ... more 
What a Martian ice age left behindParis, France (ESA) Nov 13, 2025 Travelling up from Mars's equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked by deep valleys, speckled craters, and signs of an ancient ice ag ... more 
Ancient Martian groundwater may have prolonged habitability beyond previous estimatesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025 Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi have discovered evidence that water once permeated beneath the surface of Mars, indicating the red planet may have remained suited for life longer than s ... more |
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Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian SlopesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2025 A meteoroid impact near Apollinaris Mons on Mars produced streaks and more than a hundred fresh markings across the slopes, as recorded by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on December 24, 2023. The C ... more 
China's Mars orbiter captures detailed images of interstellar object 3I ATLASTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 06, 2025 The Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter operated by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) completed a close-range observation of the interstellar object designated 3I/ATLAS using its high-resolution cam ... more 
NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars - twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold - will launch in early NovemberBerkeley, CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2025 The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaver ... more  
Protein Production Tested in Microgravity for Sustainable Space MissionsParis, France (SPX) Nov 04, 2025 European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated the study phase of the HOBI-WAN project, aimed at addressing astronaut food supply on extended Moon or Mars missions without Earth resupply. Funded by ... more |
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Yeast demonstrates survival skills under Mars conditionsSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science and the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad have shown that baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can endu ... more |
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GMV technology links global habitats in record-breaking space analog missionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2025 The World's Biggest Analog Mission (WBA) - the most extensive Moon and Mars simulation campaign ever conducted - has officially launched. Coordinated by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), the project ... more 
Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the iceUniversity Park PA (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the Red Planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researcher ... more 
Blocks of dry ice carve gullies on Martian dunes through explosive sublimationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Mysterious gullies carved into Martian sand dunes have long puzzled planetary scientists. Now, new experiments by Utrecht University Earth scientist Dr Lonneke Roelofs suggest they were dug not by f ... more 
Yeast withstands Mars-like shocks and toxic salts in survival testSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity - from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at th ... more |
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