Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2025 - Over the past week, Perseverance has been parked at a location called Tablelands, an area containing the Serpentine Lake abrasion patch acquired a few weeks ago. The Mars 2020 team has been dili
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 - New research combining spacecraft data from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA with advanced laboratory experiments suggests that Mars developed its distinctive red hue much earlier in its his
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 - The possibility that microbial life once thrived in ancient Martian waters has intrigued scientists for years. Now, researchers have demonstrated a method to detect fossilized microbes in gypsum dep
Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 - A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the plane
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2025 - Over the past week, Perseverance has been parked at a location called Tablelands, an area containing the Serpentine Lake abrasion patch acquired a few weeks ago. The Mars 2020 team has been dili
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2025 - A research collaboration between the University of Bern and the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene in Algeria has yielded significant progress in astrobiology. Their recent study
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 12, 2025 - A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology has introduced a cutting-edge dual-mode robot designed to enhance planetary exploration capabilities. The prototype, which weighs approx
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2025 - Earth planning date: Monday, Feb. 3, 2025: Another successful weekend plan left us about 23 meters (about 75 feet) farther down our Mount Sharp Ascent Route (MSAR), with all our science data downlin
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2025 - NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples, marking a historic step in Martian exploration. A new study highlights these early sampl
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - Sand dunes on the Red Planet may provide critical clues about Mars' puzzling environment, and Lauren Berger, a Ph.D. candidate in Texas A and M's Department of Geology and Geophysics, is prepared to
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - By leveraging artificial intelligence, researchers have identified a newly formed crater on Mars, revealing that the impact event propelled vibrations deep into the planet's mantle. Recent fin
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 - A space rock crashed into the martian surface in February 2021, generating seismic waves that extended 1640 km to reach NASA's InSight lander. The collision carved out a crater about 21 m wide and d
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 - The arid and cold landscape of modern Mars contrasts sharply with its past, when flowing rivers and lakes carved its surface billions of years ago. Researchers from Harvard have now proposed a compe
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 - Rootless cones, small volcanic landforms typically ranging from several meters to a few hundred meters in diameter, form through explosive interactions between surface lava and water bodies such as
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2025 - Researchers have used an aircraft to measure the wind speed on Mars, marking the first time this method has been used on another planet. This groundbreaking measurement was made possible by the Inge
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2025 - In the evolving lexicon of space exploration, the term cislunar has become fundamental to describing Earth-Moon operations, encompassing everything from satellite deployments to lunar gateway miss
