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Imagine fulfilling your life's ambition to explore a previously uncharted dried lakebed and the prehistoric river deltas that once emptied into it…
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Imagine fulfilling your life's ambition to explore a previously uncharted dried lakebed and the prehistoric river deltas that once emptied into it…
Jul 24, 2020

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space.
Jul 23, 2020

If you could stand on the surface of Mars, what would you hear? While 8 missions have returned stunning views from the surface of the Red Planet, none have returned any sound.
Jul 23, 2020

As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead.
Jul 23, 2020

During an event with the Space Foundation, I was excited to be part of a discussion on how our upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance launch and the Artemis program are critical to opening the door to smarter, safer human missions to Mars.
Jul 21, 2020

At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the…
Jul 21, 2020

The first Arab space mission to Mars blasted off from Japan on Monday on a mission to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet.
Jul 20, 2020

The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed "Hope", blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet.
Jul 20, 2020

The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its "Hope" probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation.
Jul 19, 2020

The United Arab Emirates' historic science mission to Mars now is scheduled for launch from Japan on Sunday.
Jul 17, 2020

The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is expected to lift off in July (exact launch date depends on…
Jul 16, 2020

The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather.
Jul 15, 2020

Weather at the launch site in Japan has delayed Thursday's historic launch of a United Arab Emirates space mission to Mars.
Jul 15, 2020

The United Arab Emirates said it plans to launch its "Hope" Mars probe on Friday local time from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center after a two-day delay due to poor weather there.
Jul 14, 2020

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.
Jul 14, 2020

The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a hot start.
Jul 13, 2020