New Delhi (XNA) Sep 23, 2015 - India's Mars mission will last for many years as it has so far not experienced any failures, a top space official has reportedly said. Mars (mission) is expected to last for many years now be
Paris (ESA) Sep 22, 2015 - A problem recently discovered in two sensors in the propulsion system of the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module has prompted the recommendation to move the launch of the ExoMars 2016 mis
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2015 - Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater conducting a walk-about in search of clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash f
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 18, 2015 - Space explorers will travel to prefabricated colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere, says the Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments project (SHEE). SHEE is developing domiciles to
Lancaster, UK (SPX) Sep 17, 2015 - Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan. The mission saw a cosmonaut clock up more days in space than any other h
Paris (ESA) Sep 13, 2015 - ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is proving to be an expert space driver after commanding two rovers from space this week. As part of ESA's Meteron project, Andreas drove a second, car-sized rover fro
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2015 - Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash for data storage). On So
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2015 - Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were ceme
Toronto, Canada (AFP) Sept 12, 2015 - Matt Damon got to relive his childhood fantasies of being an astronaut in Ridley Scott's 3D space epic The Martian, where he portrays a character left for dead on the Red Planet.
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 11, 2015 - Russia is developing a heavy drone that could be used both as reconnaissance and combat aircraft, one of its designers said in an interview Wednesday. The two ton Avius-1 UAV will bristle with
Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2015 - An unusual observation by Mars Express shows a sweeping view over the planet's south polar ice cap and across its ancient, cratered highlands. The image was taken by the high-resolution stereo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 10, 2015 - Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash for data
Noordwijk, Netherlands (AFP) Sept 8, 2015 - European experts have pulled off a major advance that might one day help build new worlds in space after an astronaut in the International Station Station remotely guided a robot on Earth by feel.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 - Mars was not always the arid Red Planet that we know today. Billions of years ago it was a world with watery environments - but how and why did it change? A new analysis of the largest known deposit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2015 - Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today. A new analysis of the largest known deposit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2015 - Opportunity is in 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash for data storage).
