Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2024 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently captured an image of the retired InSight lander, offering insights into dust accumulation on Mars. Taken on Oct. 23 using the orbiter's High-Resolut
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2024 - More than a century after astronomer Percival Lowell speculated about water canals on Mars, researchers continue to grapple with the question of liquid water on the red planet. Liquid water is essen
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2024 - Are the spacecraft, rovers, and debris from human exploration of Mars merely trash cluttering the Red Planet, or are they invaluable artifacts chronicling humanity's steps into interplanetary explor
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2024 - As NASA develops a blueprint for space exploration throughout the solar system for the benefit of humanity, the agency released several new documents Friday updating its Moon to Mars architecture. T
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2024 - Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and AeroVironment are completing a detailed assessment of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's final flight on Jan. 18, 2024, which
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2024 - NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully climbed to the top of Jezero Crater's rim, reaching a landmark location called Lookout Hill. This achievement follows months of challenging terrain navig
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 10, 2024 - A groundbreaking international study led by Prof. JIAN Zhang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has reconstructed Mars' solar energetic particle (SEP) spectrum for the fir
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2024 - A team of planetary scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder has shed new light on the dynamics behind Mars' infamous dust storms. These events, which sometimes enshroud the entire planet
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2024 - Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet's surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 - NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission and Purdue University planetary scientist Briony Horgan are approaching a new phase in the search for details about the red planet's history and potential for previous
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2024 - Internal gravity waves, key drivers of energy and momentum transfer within planetary atmospheres, significantly shape atmospheric dynamics on Mars. These waves, which propagate vertically from the l
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2024 - The Mars Ocean Analogs (MOA) team has successfully concluded its Winter Solstice Voyage, an ambitious North Atlantic expedition that ran from November 15 to November 24. This marked MOA's fifth majo
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 28, 2024 - China is targeting 2031 for the return of Martian samples to Earth, a mission set to advance the search for life on Mars. The Deep Space Exploration Laboratory announced that this ambitious project,
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 - Scientists have achieved a major milestone in Martian space research by constructing the first complete energy spectrum of high-energy solar protons during a solar eruptive event. This effort sheds
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 - New research led by Curtin University has identified what may be the earliest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, highlighting the planet's potential habitability in its distant p
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 - A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have in
