Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017 - Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the s
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 - Researchers from Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Soil Science, have studied the resistance microorganisms have against gamma radiation in very low temperatures. The results have been published in the Extr
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 - Future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter our explorers, and we won't be able to carry all of the materials with us from Earth. NASA's 3D-Printed Habita
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating a site where there is evidence of sc
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017 - Last month, NASA invited members of the public to send their names to Mars. And the public responded loud and clear. More than 1.6 million people signed up to have their names etched on a micr
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2017 - Color-discerning capabilities that NASA's Curiosity rover has been using on Mars since 2012 are proving particularly helpful on a mountainside ridge the rover is now climbing. These capabiliti
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2017 - When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner. Since then, camera technology h
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 30, 2017 - Researchers based millions of kilometres from Mars have unveiled new evidence for how contemporary features are formed on the Red Planet. Their innovative lab-based experiments on carbon dioxide (CO
Dhofar, Oman (AFP) Oct 30, 2017 - In sunglasses and jumpsuits, a crew of European test astronauts is laying the groundwork for a Mars simulation in the barren expanse of the Omani desert, a terrestrial mission intended to pave the way to the red planet.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2017 - Scientists from the Open University (OU) have discovered a process that could explain the long-debated mystery of how recent and present-day surface features on Mars are formed in the absence of sig
Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2017 - New lab experiments suggest the sublimation of carbon dioxide - which freezes in the winter and thaws in the spring - is leaving unique marks on Mars' sand dunes.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 24, 2017 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity team is working to restore Curiosity's sample-drilling capability using new techniques. The latest development is a preparatory test on Mars. The five-year-old miss
Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2017 - If there are habitable conditions on Mars, they may be underground. Scientists from around the world are now testing how to search for life in extreme environments by venturing a kilometre beneath t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. Although winter conditions are constraining activity, rover energy production has
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2017 - Mars has an invisible magnetic tail that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2017 - Plasma technology could hold the key to creating a sustainable oxygen supply on Mars, a new study has found. It suggests that Mars, with its 96 per cent carbon dioxide atmosphere, has nearly i
