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
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 20, 2015 - The Moon or Mars debate continues despite every single report or recommendation from NASA, NRC or other independent study that point to the Moon as the next logical destination for human space explo
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 20, 2015 - On Earth, the fastest runners can finish a marathon in hours. On Mars it takes about 11 years. On Tuesday, March 24th 2015, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon-- 26
Lawrence KS (SPX) May 18, 2015 - For centuries, people have imagined the possibility of life on Mars. But long-held dreams that Martians could be invaders of Earth, or little green men, or civilized superbeings, all have been under
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 15, 2015 - One day, when humans go to Mars, they might find that, occasionally, the Red Planet has green skies. In late Dec. 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidence of widespread auroras in Mars's nort
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 15, 2015 - A scientist has raised questions about the latest detection of methane on Mars, suggesting that NASA's rover could be responsible for the mysterious burp. Highly unlikely, but not impossible, says t
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2015 - Researchers slightly detoured NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the mission's planned path in recent days for a closer look at a hillside site where an ancient valley had been carved out and refilled
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2015 - The sun dips to a Martian horizon in a blue-tinged sky in images sent home to Earth this week from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) to record the sunset during a
Moscow (Sputnik) May 14, 2015 - As the Earth's brainpower is focused on Mars exploration, a chemist privatized space engineering and is ready to make the Red Planet's atmosphere suitable for colonists. No jokes. A Russian ch
San Antonio TX (SPX) May 13, 2015 - NASA has approved $2.6 million to advance development of Southwest Research Institute's (SwRI) Chemistry, Organics, and Dating Experiment (CODEX) instrument. The device will allow unmanned rovers to
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 09, 2015 - A team of Cornell engineering students has advanced to the finals of the University Rover Challenge, a competition to build and operate a prototype radio-controlled vehicle that could assist astrona
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2015 - What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million miles away from Earth? NASA
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater next to the Spirit of St. Louis crater near the entrance of Marathon Valley. The rover has been exploring the outcrops in this area. On h
Washington DC (XNA) May 07, 2015 - U.S. space agency NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday hailed progress on the manned Mars mission, saying that they are on track to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama five years
Dubai (AFP) May 6, 2015 - Oil-rich United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it was pressing ahead with plans to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, naming it Hope.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 05, 2015 - NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely. Last year's addition of two new spacecraf
