Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Cleantech Open of Palo Alto, Calif.
This is the first entry in the ExoMars 2016 Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during the development, integration and…
In documenting a new region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity came across a rock that looks very much like Australia.
An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.
These seven HiRISE images were acquired between August 12, 2012 and January 13, 2013, and show distinct changes in the parachute (at bottom, attached to the…
As space exploration inches closer to Mars, research into space radiation will become increasingly critical, says ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who was…
Last month in the northern Sahara desert in Morocco, an international group of scientists conducted a series of experiments in preparation for future human missions to Mars.
The presence of liquid water at and beneath frozen Alaskan sand dunes during Arctic winter suggests that liquid water could also be temporarily stable (or metastable) at frost-covered sand dunes on Mars.
This location, called 'Big Nickel,' is the last in-situ (contact) target before the rover departs from Cape York, once solar conjunction is concluded.
When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb.
ESA's Mars Express has spent nearly ten years imaging the Red Planet, and there are plenty of hidden treasures buried in the mission's rich picture archive.
After returning to the location called 'Kirkwood,' Opportunity completed a busy contact investigation of the mysterious 'newberry' spherules seen there.
The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby…
When it comes to examining the surface of rocks on Mars with a high-powered laser, five is a magic number for Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Nina Lanza.
