Daytona Beach FL (SPX) May 31, 2018 - Watching the Moon landing in 1969 on TV with her family in Trinidad and Tobago sparked Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate student Karen Brun's interest in the NASA space program. Th
Paris (ESA) May 30, 2018 - A representative model of the ExoMars rover that will land on Mars in 2021 is beginning a demanding test campaign that will ensure it can survive the rigours of launch and landing, as well as operat
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2018 - Opportunity is still about halfway down in Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater, pursuing hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is positioned next to some t
Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2018 - If humanity hopes to make it to Mars anytime soon, we need to understand not just technology, but the psychological dynamic of a small group of astronauts trapped in a confined space for months with
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 25, 2018 - An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of past or present life. The toaster oven-sized lab, ca
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2018 - Engineers working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been hard at work testing a new way for the rover to drill rocks and extract powder from them. This past weekend, that effort produced the fir
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2018 - NASA's InSight lander has made its first course correction toward Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is the first mission d
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2018 - The Mars Society, the world's largest space advocacy group dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise $27,500 for a new o
Washington (UPI) May 18, 2018 - Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are preparing to add percussion to an improvised drill technique already being used by the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 18, 2018 - NASA's Curiosity rover could soon be drilling rocks on Mars again. Engineers have been working for the past year to restore the rover's full drilling capabilities, which were hampered in 2016 due to
London, UK (SPX) May 16, 2018 - Imperial College London scientists have found traces of fatty acids - key building blocks of biological cells - in Dorset's acidic streams. They say that because of the similarity of acidic streams
Sparks NV (SPX) May 15, 2018 - Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) hardware is once again on its way to Mars, this time aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander. SNC's actuators are a critical component on the robotic arm of the vehicle t
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2018 - Opportunity is only halfway down in Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley including both water and wind ero
Tampa (AFP) May 11, 2018 - The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 11, 2018 - NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demon
Norman OK (SPX) May 08, 2018 - A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team explains why the growth of Mars was stunted by an orbital instability among the outer solar system's giant planets in a new study on the evolution of the y
