Washington DC (VOA) Jan 30, 2018 - United States government agencies say the first tests of a very small nuclear power system designed for missions to Mars have been successful. The American space agency NASA and the Department
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater from a location in the north fork of the local flow channel. Color imaging of ligh
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2018 - NASA's next mission to Mars passed a key test Tuesday, extending the solar arrays that will power the InSight spacecraft once it lands on the Red Planet this November. The test took place at L
Moscowm Russia (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 - In 2013, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos - the Russian governmental body responsible for space research - agreed to cooperate on ExoMars, the first joint interplanetary mission between ESA a
Tucson Az (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 - An international scientific effort determined the cause of a highly unusual and deadly glacier avalanche in Tibet in 2016, a new Nature Geoscience paper says. In July 2016, a glacier in Tibet
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2018 - Some Mars experts are eager and optimistic for a dust storm this year to grow so grand it darkens skies around the entire Red Planet. This biggest type of phenomenon in the environment of modern Mar
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. However, befo
Paris (ESA) Jan 19, 2018 - A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission. The International Astron
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 - Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology,
Daytona Beach, FL (SPX) Jan 18, 2018 - As NASA and others look to return humans to the Moon for longer durations, lunar dust remains an industry concern. Apollo mission crew members described the dust as similar to sandpaper, havin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. After some deliberatio
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 - By seeing which way the wind blows, a University of Texas at Dallas fluid dynamics expert has helped propose a solution to a Martian mountain mystery. Dr. William Anderson, an assistant professor of
Miami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 - Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.
Paris (ESA) Jan 11, 2018 - In everyday life we look and touch things to find out what they are made of. A powerful scientific technique does the same using lasers - and in two years' time it will fly in space for the first ti
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018 - Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. These eight scarps,
St Andrews UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 - Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. And in just two years' time, there's a big opportunity to do so, with tw
