Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a
Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars.
Pasadena, California (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life.
Washington (AFP) Aug 5, 2012 - Are we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA's $2.5 billion dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars's surface on Monday.
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 4, 2012 - India's government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet's climate and geology, a report said Saturday.
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2012 - The weather conditions on Mars are expected to be favorable when NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory attempts its risky landing on August 6, the US space agency said Saturday.
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - Dishes in Australia will be the ones following NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission when it lands on Monday (6 August) after a nail-biting series of manoeuvres. The Canberra Deep Space Communicati
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion the seven minutes of terror that people around the world have anticipated since launch a year ago, the intrepid rover
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - The last time an astrobiology mission landed on Mars, the nation was celebrating the Bicentennial and Gerald Ford was president. The two Viking landers went with the specific mission to search for s
Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2012 - ESA's Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters this large impact regi
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - Screaming through the thin Martian atmosphere at hypersonic speed, the Mars Science Laboratory is about to experience heat and pressure up to three times more intense than when a space shuttle retur
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - Curiosity remains in good health, with no significant issues currently in work. There are no real-time activities planned. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft remains on a consistent and st
Davis CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - As the Mars rover Curiosity prepares for landing on Aug. 5 after its nine-month, 352-million mile journey through space, UC Davis geology professor Dawn Sumner will be making preparations of her own
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2012 - NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades. Curiosity is a bold step
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2012 - Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning asked in his 19th Century poem. This idea is what drives humankind to explore, to literally reach beyond and
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 2, 2012 - India plans to launch a mission to Mars next year, putting an orbital probe around the red planet to study its climate and geology, top space department officials said on Thursday.
