India began a countdown Sunday to the launch of its most ambitious and risky space mission to date, sending a probe to Mars which was conceived in just 15 months on a tiny budget.
Opportunity is ascending the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production as winter approaches.
India will launch a spacecraft to Mars on November 5 - an ambitious feat attempted only by a handful of countries.
University of Washington students are crashing rockets into the ground -- on purpose, they say -- to see if samples can be returned from extreme environments.
This spherical container has been engineered to house the most scientifically valuable cargo imaginable: samples brought back from the Red Planet.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage point for pictures useful in selecting the next target the rover will reach out and touch.
The head of India's space agency warned Thursday of the immense complexity of sending a mission to Mars as the country prepares to send its first interplanetary probe to explore the atmosphere there.
NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.
Scientists from NASA and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., have identified what could be a supervolcano on Mars-the first discovery of its kind.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover has begun climbing "Solander Point," the northern tip of the tallest hill it has encountered in the mission's nearly 10 Earth years on Mars.
Scientists at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London may have discovered…
Scientists on Tuesday set November 5 for the delayed launch of India's first mission to Mars, which was postponed due to problems in positioning a seaborne tracking system.
MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month.
Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth - a.k.a.
Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Russian scientists plan to once again attempt to launch an exploratory mission on the Martian satellite Phobos - the date for the launch of the new probe…
