Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2016 - New global images of Mars from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior. They include the fir
Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2016 - Next week, ESA's ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars' gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbite
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2016 - Just last week President Obama again announced his ambitious goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. His plan calls for a safe return of astronauts after visiting the Red Planet. After that first
Paris (AFP) Oct 18, 2016 - Europe was poised Tuesday to place a paddling pool-sized lander on Mars and a gas-sniffing craft in its orbit as part of a mission with Russia to scour the Red Planet for signs of life.
Paris (AFP) Oct 17, 2016 - European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet.
Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2016 - A European lander started a three-day, million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to Mars on Sunday, quitting its mothership to test technology for a daring mission to scout the Red Planet for signs of life.
Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2016 - Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Planet's surface.
Paris (ESA) Oct 14, 2016 - This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient glaciers flowing around them. This bo
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2016 - The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission is knocking on Martian door to answer important astrobiological questions. While the mission's Schiaparelli module will focus on testing landing technolo
Paris (AFP) Oct 14, 2016 - Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for signs of life, this time with Russia.
Livermore CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2016 - Mars' largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades. But numerical simulations recently conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ha
Amherst MA (SPX) Oct 14, 2016 - Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbursts that occur when a glacial lake ic
Livermore, Calif. (UPI) Oct 12, 2016 - Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is well known for its resemblance to the Death Star, the mobile space station and planet-destroying weapon from Star Wars. Now, scientists know how Phobos' unique appearance came to be.
Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2016 - US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the nation is relying on private industry to find ways to make the giant leap to Mars, with human missions on the horizon by the 2030s.
Irvine, Calif. (UPI) Oct 10, 2016 - When scientists at the University of California, Irvine exposed rodents to doses of high-energy charged particles, the test subjects developed cognitive impairments and dementia - bad news for Mars-bound astronauts.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2016 - NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission. No Mars rover has done that be
