Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2017 - NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing Cape Tribulation, a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its next destination, Perseverance Valley. The rover te
Washington (AFP) April 14, 2017 - NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday.
Paris (AFP) April 13, 2017 - France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 - Opportunity is heading south to Perseverance Valley on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover drove on Sols 4686, 4688 and 4691 (March 30, April 1 and April 4, 2017), covering 127 feet (38.7
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 - Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysteri
Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 - Russia is a fundamental partner in the joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation ExoMars, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Roberto Battiston
Estacion Yungay, Chile (AFP) April 6, 2017 - Chile's Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand - but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars.
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 - Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, accord
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017 - The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet.
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 - Flight tests have resumed on subscale aircraft that could one day observe the Martian atmosphere and a variant that will improve collection of Earth's weather data. Work on the shape of the ai
Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2017 - Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet's early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface sci
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 - Opportunity is just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, heading to the gully, named 'Perseverance Valley.' The large regional dust storm to the west of the rover's site has started to abate, althou
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 - A routine check of the aluminum wheels on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found two small breaks on the rover's left middle wheel-the latest sign of wear and tear as the rover continues its journey,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 - As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 - New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity
Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2017 - The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway. The mission was launched a year ago this week, and has been
