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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 07, 2013 - After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called Snake River. Snake River is a thin curvin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 07, 2013 - Opportunity is on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover has been conducting in-situ (contact) science investigations with the robotic arm instruments at a locatio
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 04, 2013 - NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from u
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2013 - Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new
Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2013 - NASA says a small meteorite, possibly the first discovered from the martian surface, contains 10 times more water than meteorites that later originated on Mars. Scientists have spent a year studying the meteorite dubbed Northwest Africa 7034 found 2011 in the Sahara and have determined it formed 2.1 Bil years ago.
