Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 27, 2016 - NASA has tested a 3-D printed rocket engine turbopump with liquid methane - an ideal propellant for engines needed to power many types of spacecraft for NASA's journey to Mars. This is one of
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 - NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications and imaging, as well as robotic scien
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring the south side of 'Marathon Valley' located on the rim of Endeavour crater. The objective is to identify specific outcrops for evidence of clay minerals, so Opportunit
Paris (ESA) Apr 15, 2016 - The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet.
Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2016 - The Russian and Italian space agencies have joined forces on the first mission to drill deep beneath the surface of Mars in 2018 and explore the geological composition of the planet's crust, Italian
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 13, 2016 - The first ever joint project between the European Union and Russia on the search for life on Mars - the ExoMars spacecraft- will reach Mars' orbit on October 16, the head of Roscosmos State Corporat
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 06, 2016 - The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids as large as West Virginia likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive to life, at least for a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2016 - From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below. The view looks back at the rover's trac
Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2016 - Mars Express has been orbiting the Red Planet for 12 years. While its controllers know the spacecraft inside out, additional valuable insights may well be hidden within the mounds of telemetry the m
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2016 - The NASA spacecraft that was launched 15 years ago this week carried the name 2001 Mars Odyssey and the hopes for reviving a stymied program of exploring the Red Planet. Back-to-back failures
Kolkata, India (IANS) Apr 05, 2016 - Why wait for a million-dollar ticket to Mars when you can have an inter-planetary experience a la Oscar nominated blockbuster The Martian right here in India? One simply needs to head over t
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 05, 2016 - A new explanation of how gypsum forms may change the way we process this important building material, as well as allow us to interpret past water availability on other planets such as Mars. The work
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2016 - NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover. Opportunity could not quite get within reach
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2016 - New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global cl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2016 - What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars? A group of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been working on methods to take this question from t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring the south side of 'Marathon Valle' located on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on the slopes of 'Knudsen Ridge'. The objective is to identify specific outc
