Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook location. Last week, Cur
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 22, 2012 - The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive discovery, experts said, but NASA scientists are keeping it under wraps to double-check the spacecraft's calculations. Chief mission s
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2012 - Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on geochemical studies that help towards settlin
Washington (AFP) Nov 21, 2012 - NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet.
Washington, DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2012 - A team of scientists, including Carnegie's Conel Alexander and Jianhua Wang, studied the hydrogen in water from the Martian interior and found that Mars formed from similar building blocks to that o
Leicester UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2012 - New research by the University of Leicester and The Open University into evidence of water on Mars, sufficiently warm enough to support life, has been published this week in the journal Earth and Pl
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 18, 2012 - A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been deli
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2012 - A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for integration into NASA's Mars Atmosphere a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2012 - Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface. Researchers
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Nov 18, 2012 - Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet's northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geologic history and comprise striking simil
Washington (UPI) Nov 17, 2012 - The Mars rover Curiosity found radiation levels on Mars are not lethal to humans, U.S. researchers say.
Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2012 - High above the main body of Mars' atmosphere is a region of weakly ionised gas, known as the ionosphere. For the last eight years this poorly understood region has been observed by instruments on bo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2012 - A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM. Located inside th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 13, 2012 - NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in se
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Nov 13, 2012 - NASA says its Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment not used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2012 - In 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found evidence of fossilized life in a Mars meteorite. Not only did the shapes look like bacteria, but a fo
