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
Oxford UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 - When searching for life, scientists first look for an element key to sustaining it: fresh water. Although today's Martian surface is barren, frozen and inhabitable, a trail of evidence points
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 - An international study co-led by SFU researcher Brendan Dyck has revealed that the sun may not have evaporated away all of Mars' surface water after all. Instead, the surface water on Mars was absor
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 26, 2017 - 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. The team is coll
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2017 - How long might a rocky, Mars-like planet be habitable if it were orbiting a red dwarf star? It's a complex question but one that NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission can help answer
Paris (AFP) Dec 20, 2017 - What happened to all the water that once sloshed in lakes and oceans on Mars? Much of it, researchers proposed Wednesday, may be locked up in stone.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2017 - A scientist from Siberian Federal University (SFU) and his colleagues from Austria and Germany constructed a physical and mathematical model of Mars- and Venus-sized planet formation. The team
Paris (ESA) Dec 18, 2017 - Which way is up in space? Planets are usually shown with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom. In this remarkable image taken by ESA's Mars Express, the Red Planet is seen with
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover continued with several days of collecting color, stereo, Panoramic Camera
Paris (ESA) Dec 17, 2017 - When resources are limited, you have to work with what you have - especially in the harsh environment of space. Though the International Space Station is regularly restocked by cargo vessels, like t
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 - On the lava fields of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have been busy doing science in a most unusual way. They were studying the biology and geology of this remarka
New Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 - The U.S. space exploration program should continue to focus on robotic sample recovery and human missions to Mars, says Scott Hubbard, Editor-in-Chief of New Space. He details the benefits and risks
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017 - Opportunity, NASA's senior Mars rover, has lasted through another harsh winter on the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2017 - NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean condition for entering a potential dust-storm
Providence RI (SPX) Dec 06, 2017 - Planetary scientists from Brown University have proposed a new scenario for the formation of ancient clay minerals on Mars that, if shown to be true, could rewrite the early history of the red plane
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour Crater. Before moving to the next waypoint, the team commanded the rover
