Denver CO (JPL) May 29, 2015 - Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016. The lander is called InSight, an abbreviation for Interior Exploration using
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 29, 2015 - It was not your typical NASA meeting. But then again, it would have been difficult to have a typical NASA meeting surrounded by all the hooks, nets, processing tables and other fishy paraphernalia f
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 28, 2015 - Repeat after me: Mars matters, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told the auditorium of participants at the May 5, 2015 Humans to Mars Summit organized by the non-profit Explore Mars, Inc. Mars m
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 27, 2015 - MarsPolar is setting its sights on the Red Planet. The project consisting of specialists from Russia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, U.S. and Ukraine has come up with a bold idea to establish a human
Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2015 - NASA teams are continuing preparations for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test off the coast of Hawaii June 2-12. This week the team completed a number of key pre-test procedures, inc
Abu Dhabi (XNA) May 26, 2015 - The United Arab Emirates on Monday kicked off a strategic framework for its newly founded space agency that aims to launch satellite missions and the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 26, 2015 - Mars is a large enough planet that astrobiologists looking for life need to narrow the parameters of the search to those environments most conducive to habitability. NASA's Mars Curiosity mission is
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover climbed a hill Thursday to approach an alternative site for investigating a geological boundary, after a comparable site proved hard to reach. The drive of about 72
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater at the 'Spirit of St. Louis' crater near the entrance of 'Marathon Valley.' The rover had been exploring the outcrops inside the Spirit of St. Loui
Abu Dhabi (XNA) May 26, 2015 - The state-owned Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has set up a team of researchers in order to support the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to achieve its goal of sending an unmanned space probe
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 26, 2015 - MarsPolar, a newly started international venture is setting its sights on the Red Planet. The project consisting of specialists from Russia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, U.S. and Ukraine has come u
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) May 26, 2015 - Methane readings on Mars are once again sparking scientific controversy back on Earth. Recently, sensors on NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, registered a sizable spike in methane gas, leading researchers to believe microbial life might not be far away.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2015 - Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. This instrument provides
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2015 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is studying an elongated crater called Spirit of St. Louis and a rock spire called Lindbergh Mound within the crater. The crater and several featu
Paris (ESA) May 25, 2015 - At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: i
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 20, 2015 - New technologies allow us to go back to the Moon at a fraction the cost of Apollo, and now, even private efforts like the Google X Prize contestants are underway to land and execute exploration miss
