Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2016 - As NASA's Curiosity rover makes its way up the central peak of Gale Crater, it has been gathering evidence from ancient lake beds and long ago groundwater environments that are promising to life.
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2016 - A major challenge in the exploration of Mars by robots is its uneven surface, which is marked by trenches and craters. Whether the systems can withstand the rough terrain on the Red Planet, they hav
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 16, 2016 - Getting to the surface of Mars takes years of planning, engineering and science work, a successful launch, and a months-long journey of millions of miles. You only get one opportunity to touch down
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2016 - NASA's Curiosity rover is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, creating more diverse chemica
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 14, 2016 - Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past. This finding and others from NASA's Curiosity r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2016 - Opportunity is heading towards the next science waypoint on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Early in this period, Sols 4556 and 4559 (Nov. 16, 2016 and Nov. 19, 2016) she did quite a bit of explo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2016 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is studying its surroundings and monitoring the environment, rather than driving or using its arm for science, while the rover team diagnoses an issue with a motor that m
Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2016 - The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has imaged the martian moon Phobos as part of a second set of test science measurements made since it arrived at the Red Planet on 19 October. The Trace Gas Orbit
Chieti, Italy (UPI) Dec 7, 2016 - Scientists are generally in agreement that water once flowed on Mars. The nature of those flows and the conditions that made them possible are less obvious, however.
The Hague (AFP) Dec 7, 2016 - A British-Dutch company planning to install a community of humans on Mars admitted on Wednesday that it's project will be delayed by several years.
The Hague (AFP) Dec 2, 2016 - A British-Dutch project aiming to send an unmanned mission to Mars by 2018 announced Friday that the shareholders of a Swiss financial services company have agreed a takeover bid.
University Park PA (SPX) Dec 02, 2016 - Dramatic climate cycles on early Mars, triggered by buildup of greenhouse gases, may be the key to understanding how liquid water left its mark on the planet's surface, according to a team of planet
Paris (AFP) Dec 2, 2016 - European ministers approved a 1.4-billion-euro ($1.5-billion) lifeline Friday for plans to place a life-seeking rover on Mars and maintain a presence on the International Space Station.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2016 - Data from each of the two rovers active on Mars reached Earth last week in the successful first relay test of a NASA radio aboard Europe's new Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The transmissions from N
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 30, 2016 - The Mars Camera, CaSSIS, on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured its first high resolution images of the Red Planet last week. The Bernese camera worked almost perfectly and has provided spectacul
Paris (ESA) Nov 30, 2016 - ESA's new ExoMars orbiter has tested its suite of instruments in orbit for the first time, hinting at a great potential for future observations. The Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, a joint endeavour bet
