Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2013 - A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. The new information comes from
Washington (AFP) Jan 20, 2013 - A US spacecraft orbiting Mars has provided evidence of an ancient crater lake fed by groundwater, adding further support to theories that the Red Planet may once have hosted life, NASA said Sunday.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jan 17, 2013 - Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars. Rese
Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2013 - When humans eventually travel to the Red Planet, the voyage will be long and difficult. The simulated Mars500 mission showed that every detail must be planned, including diet and sleep. The findings
Paris (UPI) Jan 17, 2013 - A European spacecraft has captured a striking image of a river-like structure on Mars believe formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 17, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up
Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2013 - The Mars rover Curiosity will soon begin to drill into the Red Planet for the first time, mission officials said Tuesday ahead of the highly anticipated endeavor.
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 14, 2013 - Researchers at the have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these micronich
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2013 - Opportunity is on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater at the local region called Matijevic Hill. The rover completed the in-situ (contact) analysis at the location
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 14, 2013 - Mars One, a Netherlands-based non-profit company that hopes to deliver the first humans to the Red Planet by 2023, has issued a list of basic requirements for those willing to become Mars colony pio
Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2013 - For 205 days in 2011, Jens Titze, Professor of Electrolyte and Circulatory Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and his team strictly controlled the diet for the Mars500 test subjects d
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jan 10, 2013 - In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baylor College of Medicine, has analyzed data on the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. Nearing the end of a series of first-time uses of the rover's tools, the mission has cleared d
New Delhi (XNA) Jan 08, 2013 - India has scaled down its flying experimental payloads for exploring the Mars by reducing the payload from 25 kg to 15 kg, local media reported on Sunday. The Mars Orbiter Mission, expected to
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 07, 2013 - While the Mars' Rovers continue to scour the surface of the Red Planet snapping pictures, zapping rocks and looking at any other clues about its composition, researchers at the University of New Mex
Washington (AFP) Jan 07, 2013 - A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed Black Beauty could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday.
