Amsterdam, Netherlands (UPI) Oct 11, 2014 - Mars One is a nonprofit that has plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, but doctoral students at MIT believe the current plans could put the colonists at risk of starving to death.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2014 - Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are bound and determined to destroy a perfectly good parachute this week during the latest test for the Low-Density Supersoni
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals only a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the south. The rover is exa
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 08, 2014 - Russian scientists have developed a unique mechanism for the rover's descent to the surface of Mars, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute said on Friday. Our European
Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 08, 2014 - A Washington State University undergraduate has helped develop a new method for detecting water on Mars. Her findings appear in Nature Communications, one of the most influential general science jou
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 08, 2014 - Russia may attempt to repeat its mission to Mars' moon Phobos in 2023, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute told RIA Novosti Friday. The Russian-led mission Phobos-Grun
New York (UPI) Oct 6, 2014 - The New York Times apologized on Sunday for a cartoon that ran over the weekend disparaging India and its space program.
Paris (ESA) Oct 03, 2014 - Four possible landing sites are being considered for the ExoMars mission in 2018. Its rover will search for evidence of martian life, past or present. ExoMars is a joint two-mission endeavour
Paris (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday it had identified four potential sites for landing a rover on Mars in 2019 in its boldest exploration yet of the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2014 - In a meeting Tuesday in Toronto, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to launch a NASA-ISRO satelli
Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2014 - High winds are a near-daily force on the surface of Mars, carving out a landscape of shifting dunes and posing a challenge to exploration, scientists said Tuesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The rover is headed to a near-term target, a small crater named
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 26, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first taste of the layered mountain whose scientific allure drew the mission to choose this part of Mars as a landing site. Late Wednesday, Sept.
New Dehli (RIA Novosti) Sep 26, 2014 - India's Mangalyaan orbiter reached Mars' orbit Wednesday, becoming the first spacecraft from an Asian country to reach the red planet, but the country hit another record by making the cheapest space
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sep 25, 2014 - India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride Thursday after winning Asia's race to the Red Planet. The India
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 - India's Mars Orbiter Mission on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet on in its first attempt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced.
