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.
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 - 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
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
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
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
