Dublin (AFP) March 17, 2015 - An Irish finalist for the audacious Mars One project to start a human colony on the red planet predicted the plan would fall on its face on Tuesday.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 17, 2015 - Scientists of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have taken to kites that they fly above lava flows blanketing the Hawaiian landscape to unravel the past mysteries that shape
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 16, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 394 feet (120 meters) away. The project is preparing to
Paris (ESA) Mar 16, 2015 - On the boundary between the heavily cratered southern highlands and the smooth northern lowlands of Mars is an area rich in features sculpted by water and ice. Cydonia Mensae is a region of me
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 16, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its robotic arm Wednesday, March 11, to sieve and deliver a rock-powder sample to an onboard instrument. The sample was collected last month before the team temporar
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2015 - Roscosmos spokesperson Igor Bourenkov said Thursday that ambitious projects involving manned trips to deep space, including Mars, will have to be international in nature, Russia's RIA Novosti report
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2015 - College students have the opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation for NASA's journey to Mars by designing systems for future space habitats and exploration systems through the agency's Expl
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2015 - On Feb. 16, an international group of researchers proposed new hypotheses about some unusual plumes spotted by amateur astronomers on Mars in 2012. The plumes were seen rising to altitudes of over 2
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 394 feet (120 meters) away. The project is preparing to
Paris (ESA) Mar 10, 2015 - In May, the 'webcam' on board Mars Express will be available for public imaging requests. We're inviting schools, science clubs and youth groups to submit proposals for one of eight opportunities to
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2015 - Thanks to groundbreaking research at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, those who wish to one day colonize Mars have a new technique at their disposal to harvest energy from carbon dioxid
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 09, 2015 - Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears to be an intermittent short circui
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2015 - A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2015 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying Marathon Valley, a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations from orbit indicate exposu
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 06, 2015 - Scientists at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are building an instrument, which will turn carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen, with NASA planning to use it on their 2020 mission to Ma
Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2015 - A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planet's surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth, according to new results published t
