Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 - New research suggests the wispy clouds found 18 miles above the Marian surface are made of icy dust produced by meteors hitting the Red Planet's atmosphere.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2019 - When a female astronaut first sets foot on the Moon in 2024, the historic moment will represent a step toward another NASA first: eventually putting humans on Mars. NASA's latest robotic mission to
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 - Next summer, NASA is launching the Mars 2020 robotic rover to the Red Planet, loaded with equipment to search for signs that there once was life on Mars. One device, called the Scanning Habitable En
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 - There is a new plan to support the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Mars 'Mole' that is part of NASA's InSight mission. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019 - A newly installed webcam offers the public a live, bird's-eye view of NASA's Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. You can watch as JPL engin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019 - NASA's Mars Helicopter flight demonstration project has passed a number of key tests with flying colors. In 2021, the small, autonomous helicopter will be the first vehicle in history to attempt to
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 06, 2019 - Physicist Brian Cox says the Red Planet Mars, which looks like a rocky desert now, might have once been a true paradise with waterfall cascades and rivers, offering conditions that made life possibl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2019 - Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the mole, digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Pa
Champaign IL (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology. The bacterium that controls the fo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2019 - One of the first operations the Mars 2020 rover will perform after touching down on the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, will be to raise its remote sensing mast (RSM), which carries imp
Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2019 - A Mars Sample Return campaign would bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth for examination in the best terrestrial laboratories - but choosing the samples and storing them on Mars for later r
Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2019 - An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation doses up to 700 times higher than on our planet - a major showstopper for the safe exploration of our Solar System. A team of European exper
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2019 - The ExoMars rover has a brand new control centre in one of Europe's largest Mars yards. The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) was inaugurated in Turin, Italy, ahead of the rover's exploration a
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2019 - NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the clay-bearing unit, is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets cal
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2019 - Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. E
Paris (ESA) May 28, 2019 - Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning
