Paris (ESA) Nov 01, 2013 - This spherical container has been engineered to house the most scientifically valuable cargo imaginable: samples brought back from the Red Planet. Still probably many years in the future and most li
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2013 - 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 wil
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 31, 2013 - 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.
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2013 - 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.
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2013 - Scientists at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London may have discovered how Mars lost its early carbon dioxide-r
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2013 - 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. The volcano in question, a vast
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 24, 2013 - 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. Guided by mineral map
Bangalore, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2013 - 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.
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 22, 2013 - MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, MAVEN is slated for a spin test without propel
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 - Russia is set to launch a probe to the Martian moon Phobos by 2022, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute has revealed. The renewal of the ambitious program, which includes taking samples
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2013 - Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth - a.k.a. Martian meteorites - really are from the Red Planet. A key new measure
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 - 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 entitled Boomerang is tentatively set on 202
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2013 - Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contacts at the base of Solander Point. On Sol 3446 (Oct. 3, 201
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 17, 2013 - Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing back to Earth, a top scientist said Tue
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 17, 2013 - India is getting ready to become the fifth country to send a spaceship to Mars. The USA, Russia, the EU, China and Japan are working on their own programs of studying the Red Planet. And although it
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has found evidence confirming some meteors found on Earth did in fact come from the Red Planet, scientists report.
