Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2013 - Opportunity is up on 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Mars Odyssey went into safe mode and
Tucson, AZ (SPX) Dec 17, 2013 - The first detailed examination of clay mineralogy in its original setting on Mars is offering new insights on the planet's past habitability, research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scien
London, UK (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published in the journal Science. A team of researchers from NASA's Ma
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - Someday, human explorers might momentously discover fossils on Mars, proving that the Red Planet once supported extraterrestrial life. An interplanetary expedition of this sort will have overcome ma
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments-like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks-have always been done on Earth. Now, for the first
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - In the first 300 days of the Mars Science Laboratory surface mission, the Curiosity rover cruised around the planet's Gale Crater, collecting soil samples and investigating rock structures while the
Denver CO (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - Mars One has selected Lockheed Martin to develop a mission concept study for its Mars lander spacecraft. The lander will be based on the successful 2007 NASA Phoenix spacecraft and will be a technol
Guildford, UK (SPX) Dec 13, 2013 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected to carry out a concept study to develop an interplanetary communications system for Mars One, the privately funded project to establish a hum
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year on the Red Planet,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2013 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings - possibly due to salty water - that advance seasonally down slopes surprisingly close to the Martian equator.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 11, 2013 - A permanent human colony may be established on Mars in the nearest future. Under the Mars One spaceflight project first four Martians are expected to land on the Red Planet already in 2023 and stay
Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2013 - A Dutch entrepreneur's bold quest to colonize Mars won high-profile support Tuesday from a US aerospace giant, although the timetable for putting humans on the red planet has been pushed back two years.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 10, 2013 - Bas Lansdorp, the founder of Mars One colony project, believes that in about a decade from now a colony of people from the Earth will appear on Mars. Experts confirm that with the current technologi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2013 - The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. In place for the long Thanksgiving Holiday, Opportunity conducted some in-situ (contact) science at another exposed
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 9, 2013 - The U.S. space rover Curiosity is providing critical information about Mars' past and present to help plan future missions, NASA officials said.
Washington (AFP) Dec 09, 2013 - A US space agency rover tooling around on the surface of Mars has found remnants of an ancient freshwater lake that may have supported tiny life forms, scientists said Monday.
