Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Oct 7, 2015 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spends much of its time watching the Red Planet's shifting sand dunes, which offer plenty of clues about erosion and weather patterns on Mar's surface.
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 06, 2015 - The contest, held by NASA, generated many ingenious architectural concepts of what housing on Mars might look like. A 3D-printed igloo has emerged as the winner from a competition to develop the bes
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 06, 2015 - Elon Musk, the head of aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, who had earlier come up with the idea of dropping two thermonuclear bombs on Mars, explained that this step could make the colonization of the R
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2015 - This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the Buckskin rock target, where the mission collected its seventh drilled sample. The site is in the Marias Pas
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 06, 2015 - Scientists around the world are advancing knowledge of our world and beyond using the state-of-the-art facilities in the International Space Station. But all of the action isn't in space. Much of wh
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 06, 2015 - When moving from one city to another, people rarely bring their house with them - they just rent, buy or build a new one. Astronauts don't have the luxury of a realtor on other planets, or even a ha
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2015 - When you're designing an airplane that could one day be the first to fly on Mars, the answer cannot be found in the back of the book. That's one of many conclusions groups of students in two N
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2015 - On Tuesday, Sept. 29, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars, and its fifth since reaching Mount Sharp one year ago. The drilling of the hole 2.6-inches (65 millimeters) d
Lawrence KS (SPX) Oct 02, 201 - The search for life beyond Earth is one of the grandest endeavors in the history of humankind - a quest that could transform our understanding of our universe both scientifically and spiritually. Wi
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive after landing in a new world? NASA researchers intend to find out. A helium-filled scientific balloon wi
Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2015 - Every time NASA ballyhoos a press conference to announce an exciting discovery about Mars, the public bets heavily that the news will either be about water (What, again?) or life (Finally!) This wee
Paris (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - A multi-billion-dollar robot dispatched to Mars to search for life must steer clear of promising hot spots for fear of spreading microbes from Earth, NASA project scientists said Thursday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2015 - New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 28, 2015 - Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater conducting a walk-about survey for clay minerals. The rover's current location within Marathon Valley with its high
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 28, 2015 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is conducting a walkabout survey of Marathon Valley, where the rover's operators plan to use the vehicle through the upcoming Martian winter, and beyond
New Delhi, India (SPX) Sep 25, 2015 - Mars Orbiter spacecraft marks one year of its life around the red planet today. After successfully completing one year of the mission life around Mars, now a large data set has been acquired by all
