San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2014 - A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water li
Moscow (SPX) Dec 24, 2014 - Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with their French and American colleagues,
Paris (ESA) Dec 23, 2014 - This latest release from the camera on ESA's Mars Express is a simulated flight over the Becquerel crater, showing large-scale deposits of sedimentary material. The 167 km-diameter Becquerel c
Princeton, N.J. (UPI) Dec 22, 2014 - Scientists say a new method, called ballistic capture, for transporting robotic rovers, satellites and astronaut-carrying spacecraft to Mars could save space agencies time and money.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a location assumed to have abundant clay minerals only about a half-mile (800 meters) to the south. With t
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2014 - NASA and an international team of planetary scientists have found evidence in meteorites on Earth that indicates Mars has a distinct and global reservoir of water or ice near its surface. Thou
Melbourne, Australia (XNA) Dec 18, 2014 - A Mars One astronaut candidate and a team of Western Australian students aiming to generate the first breathable air on Mars have reached the finals of the international competition that will land v
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 17, 2014 - The team responsible for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules at Mars. Organic molecules are the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2014 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the ro
Miami (AFP) Dec 16, 2014 - Methane, a gas that on Earth comes mainly from living organisms, has been measured for the first time making a sudden spike on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled about its origin.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2014 - Early discoveries by NASA's newest Mars orbiter are starting to reveal key features about the loss of the planet's atmosphere to space over time. The findings are among the first returns from
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 16, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals only about a mile (about 1 kilometer) to the south. Because
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 16, 2014 - Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 15, 2014 - Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from marsquakes shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes. The shaken sediments formed features that n
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2014 - Persistent computer resets and amnesia events on NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity that have occurred after reformatting the robot's flash memory have prompted a shift to a working mode th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals less than a mile (about a kilometer) to the south. The rove
