Washington DC (UPI) 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. It was the second such delay in a week.
Washington (AFP) July 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.
Dubai (AFP) July 14, 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.
Paris (AFP) July 13, 2020 - We have lift-off, we have lift-off!
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet this summer. Encased in the nose cone that will protect it during launch, the rover
Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - A research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) conducted the first study of area and elevation changes for all Alpine glaciers over a period of 14 years. This involved
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - NASA has released two NASA Interim Directives (NIDs) updating the agency's requirements for robotic and human missions traveling to the Earth's Moon, and human missions traveling to Mars. The first,
Paris (AFP) July 11, 2020 - Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life?
Paris (AFP) July 10, 2020 - The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures.
Dubai (AFP) July 10, 2020 - The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 - NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the mole burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet's deep interior to reveal
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 - Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs that there once was life on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2020 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain. By trip's end, the rover will be able to ascend to the ne
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - This video shows a simulated flight over Korolev Crater. The 82-kilometre-wide impact crater is filled with water ice all year round. It is located in the northern lowlands of Mars, near the permane
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 - Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a dead planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to oce
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2020 - China's first Mars rover should launch later this month, authorities said Wednesday, as the country races to catch up with the US dominance of space.
