Tokyo, Japan (The Conversation) May 03, 2017 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to Earth. It's a plan to uncover both the mystery of the moons' creation
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 02, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing the drive south to Perseverance Valley on the rim of Endeavour Crater, and is now only about 262 feet (80 meters) away. On Sol 4706 (April 19, 2017), she drove abou
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2017 - Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2017 - Opportunity is continuing the drive south to 'Perseverance Valley' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover drove on Sols 4693 and 4695 (April 6 and April 8, 2017), covering 46 feet (14.11 me
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2017 - Gullies eroded into the steep inner slope of an impact crater at this location appear perfectly pristine in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Although at first glance
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 - From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution. Studying the early bombardment histor
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2017 - A new observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures the landing platform that the rover Opportunity left behind in Eagle Crater more than 13 years and 27 miles (or 44 kilometers
Copenhagen (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017 - Humans have yet to set foot on Mars, but meteorites have been, by far, the most frequent visitors from outer space on Earth. Recently, one which has been dubbed Black Beauty landed in the hands of
Providence RI (SPX) Apr 21, 2017 - Brown University researchers have published the most detailed geological history to date for a region of Mars known as Northeast Syrtis Major, a spot high on NASA's list of potential landing sites f
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.
