Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 07, 2013 - Indian's first Mars Orbiter Mission - Mangalyaan - might be a long way from its target, but it has already gone further than any spacecraft India has previously launched. The Mars Orbiter Miss
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 07, 2013 - The ChemCam laser instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity rover fired its 100,000th shot recently, chronicling its adventures on Mars with a coffee-table-book's worth of spectral data that might rival sn
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2013 - MAVEN mission controllers performed a successful trajectory correction maneuver, also known as a TCM. Post-maneuver data review shows that TCM-1 went according to plan. This maneuver removed the pla
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2013 - Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. On Sol 3496 (Nov. 23, 2013), the
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 04, 2013 - Cooperation with Russia comprises practically all areas of the European Space Agency's (ESA) space activities. Several months ago the ESA and Russian federal space agency signed a formal agreement t
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 01, 2013 - There's no turning back. India's Mars Orbiter Mission has left Earth orbit and is heading for the red planet. After a flourish of media coverage before and shortly after launch, attention on this mi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 27, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed full science operations on Saturday, Nov. 23. Activities over the weekend included use of Curiosity's robotic arm to deliver portions of powdered rock to a labora
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 25, 2013 - Much like the Grand Canyon, Nanedi Valles snakes across the Martian surface suggesting that liquid water once crossed the landscape, according to a team of researchers who believe that molecular hyd
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2013 - Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Opportunity is experiencing the p
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2013 - Almost 40 years ago, two NASA probes on the surface of Mars scooped the soil in search of signs of microbes. The results that came back from the twin Viking missions were, to say the least, ambiguou
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Nov 25, 2013 - Billionaire Dennis Tito has revealed his scheme for dispatching two astronauts to the red planet as early as December 2017, saying that 'rare alignments' of planets should be exploited as the contex
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2013 - Science observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have been suspended for a few days while engineers run tests to check possible causes of a voltage change detected on Nov. 17. The vehicle
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2013 - As NASA prepares to launch a new Martian probe, a Florida State University scientist has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. The work of Munir Humayun - a pr
Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet's crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Earlier this year Dennis Wingo wrote a very interesting piece for SpaceRef.com on Dennis Tito's announced plan to send two space passengers on a comm
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Researchers develop algorithm to identify individual grains in planetary regolith. Instruments on the Curiosity Mars rover not only measure the chemistry of rocks, elemental abundances of soils and
