Huailai, China (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - China on Thursday completed a test of its Mars exploration lander ahead of Beijing's first mission to the red planet slated for 2020.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 13, 2019 - Scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the rover will land on Feb. 18, 2021. A pape
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 13, 2019 - Next year, NASA plans to launch a new Mars rover to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. A new study shows that the rover's Jezero crater landing site is home to deposits of hydrated
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 13, 2019 - For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, t
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 - Mars Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first planetary mission, is a true marathon runner among spacecraft. Launched on 2 June 2003, the spacecraft arrived at Mars during the night of 25 De
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2019 - This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 8, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA's Mars 2020 rover has carried its full weight on its legs and
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2019 - A new selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it's especially meaningful for the mission's team: stitched together from 57 individual images taken by a camera on the end of
London, UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 - Detailed three-dimensional images of an extensive landslide on Mars, which spans an area more than 55 kilometres wide, have been analysed to understand how the unusually large and long ridges and fu
Westminster CO (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 - Maxar Technologies has delivered the robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA's Mars 2020 rover. As the Mars 2020 rover explores the red planet, the SHA will process and store samples a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2019 - Don't miss the out-of-this-world opportunity to name NASA's next Mars rover: U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, attending public, private or home schools, have only through Nov. 1 to
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2019 - In this time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 4, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of protective antistatic foil on the Mars
College Station TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 - Mars once had salt lakes that are similar to those on Earth and has gone through wet and dry periods, according to an international team of scientists that includes a Texas A and M University Colleg
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2019 - NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as the mole, dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week. While modest, the movement is significan
DLR Institute of Planetary Research - Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 07, 2019 NASA's InSight mission landed on Mars in November 2018. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is involved in the Heat Flow
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2019 - The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of the agency's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover. HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landi
Paris (ESA) Oct 16, 2019 - Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window. The missio
