Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - Around 200,000 people have applied for a one-way mission to Mars, though it's still pretty unclear if and when the ambitious project to colonize the red planet is going to take place. Some believe
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - Mars One is a non-profit organization that plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars with dramatic style in August, 2012. Now that the rover has spent more than a year exploring the martian surface, scientific data from the mission is star
Chennai, India (IANS) Dec 26, 2013 - The successful launch of India's first inter-planetary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the sending up of India's first navigation satellite midnight, the launch of the Indo-French satellite SARAL, and s
Paris (ESA) Dec 25, 2013 - Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 23, 2013 - 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars. The applicants agreed to stay on the Red Planet for the rest of their lives and be filmed for a reality TV program, accor
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 21, 2013 - The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed a software upgrade on the vehicle and is next planning a check of wear and tear on the rover's wheels. Curiosity is now operating
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 20, 2013 - NASA says its Mars rover Curiosity has had a technology tuneup, a software upgrade that will advance the rover's capabilities.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
