Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 - If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which mart
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 - Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks in
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2020 - Even before this interviewer can finish the question, Did anyone ever tell you this was a crazy idea? Bob Balaram jumps in: Everyone. All the time. This crazy idea is the Mars Helicopter
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 - In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass, minerals and rocks as thick as a strand of wool fiber. It is a slice of Martian meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7034 or Black
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 - The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA's newly named rover - Perseverance - received a significant boost following the completion of important testing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 - NASA's Send Your Name to Mars campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that. The nam
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2020 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the Greenheugh Pediment, a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2020 - With the launch period for NASA's Mars Perseverance rover opening in a little less than four months, the six-wheeler is reaching significant pre-launch milestones almost daily at the Kennedy Space C
Lisboa, Portugal (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 - Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of ours on Earth, and gravity pulls with little more than one third of the strength we feel on our planet. As a result, dust st
Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 - A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues.
Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2020 - The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022. The joint ESA-Roscosmos p
Pullman WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 - Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by epicureans and wild pigs. Thiophenes were also recently d
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 - The images shown here, which were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, reveal the impressive Moreux Crater on Mars. Glaciers have left their mark
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 - The name was announced Thursday by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Zurbuchen
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2020 - NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled
Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 - Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere - and whether life was once possible there. A paper detailing the work was published in the
