Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2015 - Science-team members for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are soliciting help from the public to analyze exotic features near the south pole of Mars. By categorizing features visible in imag
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2015 - Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Sili
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2015 - The cold permafrost of Antarctica houses bacteria that thrive at temperatures below freezing, where water is icy and nutrients are few and far between. Oligotrophs, slow-growing organisms that prefe
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2015 - While life is everywhere on Earth, there is much debate about how it began. Some believe it originated naturally from the chemistry found on our planet as it evolved. Others hypothesize that life -
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading into 'Marathon Valley.' On Sol 4072 (July 8, 2015), the rover collected some targeted 13-filter Panoramic Camera (Pancam) images and some N
Washington (UPI) Jul 15, 2015 - Fifty years ago today, the first image of Mars was beamed back by NASA's Mariner 4. The image, which was followed by 22 others, was first closeup of another planet.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 15, 2015 - The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental c
Pasadena CA (Sputnik) Jul 14, 2015 - An application called 'Mars Trek', which was released by NASA on Friday, lets you explore the red planet from your computer or mobile phone. The volcanos and craters of Mars can now be explore
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2015 - Operators of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plan to drive the rover into a valley this month where Opportunity will be active through the long-lived rover's seventh Martian winter, examin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater at the 'Spirit of St. Louis' crater near the entrance of 'Marathon Valley.' The Earth-Mars Solar Conjunction command moratorium and communica
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2015 - When an aircraft makes its first flight on Mars in the 2020s, a NASA Armstrong innovation may have made it possible. A prototype of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Pr
Washington (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2015 - As NASA considers the possibility of a manned mission to Mars, it may first send another lifeform: microscopic bacteria which could biologically engineer the planet's ecosystem, making it more habit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is examining a valley where at least two types of bedrock meet, for clues about changes in ancient environmental conditions recorded by the rock. In addition to two rock
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 2, 2015 - After a few weeks of limited communication with ground controllers, NASA's Curiosity rover is back online and doing some science.
New Rochelle NY (SPX) Jul 01, 2015 - A new, cost-constrained U.S. strategy to send humans on Mars, could be achieved within projected NASA budgets by minimizing new developments and relying mainly on already available or planned NASA a
Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2015 - NASA researchers are preparing to test the prototype that may pave the way for the first plane to fly Martian skies. The airplane is called the Prandtl-m.
