Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft has discovered layers and rifts in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 - Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 - Inspired by the desire to improve life on Earth and to settle on Mars in future, the team of Interstellar Lab has combined architecture, engineering, product design and science to create closed-loop
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 - Academics believe a Martian moon base would be considerably cheaper to build than a base on the planet itself, while providing for the real-time control of robots stationed on Mars' surface. A
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2020 - Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover. The nine candidate names were made possible by the Name the Rover essay contest, which invited
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 - Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. But the reality may be even stranger - an
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 - These images show clouds of dust over our planetary neighbour's northern polar ice cap. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which is operated by the German Aerospace Cent
Paris (ESA) Jan 14, 2020 - ESA's Mars Express has captured beautiful images of the icy cap sitting at Mars' north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs of strong winds and stormy a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2020 - NASA's Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S. were chosen as semifinalists in the Name the Rover essay contest. Just one will be selected to w
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 - One last time on Earth it has been turned on in France in December 2019. The next time the MOMA laser developed by the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) is going into operation will be on Mars. The
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2020 - All kinds of geological formations on Mars, alluvial fans, dry lake beds and eroded river valleys, suggest the Red Planet once hosted an abundance of water. Today, the water is mostly gone. What's left is largely locked up in the planet's polar ice caps.
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 09, 2020 - The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest. The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars:
Pasadena, United States (AFP) Dec 28, 2019 - NASA's Mars 2020 rover will head off for the Red Planet next year. But like Voyager, Galileo and Cassini before it, the mission's epic journey began in a clean room in California.
Pasadena, United States (AFP) Dec 28, 2019 - The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle.
Paris (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 - A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission's parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on track
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2019 - NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and b
