Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 - NASA's Perseverance rover identified light-colored rocks in Jezero crater that consist of white, aluminum-rich kaolinite clay. These rocks formed after prolonged exposure to water leached other mine
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 - To prepare new autonomous systems for Mars, NASA teams have been testing drones, a legged robot, and a winged flyer concept in harsh desert environments in California, New Mexico, and Virginia. The
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 - Billions of years ago, rainfall on Mars fed rivers that cut valleys, overtopped crater rims and carved canyons, with some flows likely reaching a northern ocean basin on the planet. Researcher
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 - Electric discharges have been detected inside dust devils and dust storms on Mars for the first time, using sound recordings from the SuperCam microphone on NASAs Perseverance rover. Scientists from
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 - About a week after liftoff, the twin spacecraft of NASA's ESCAPADE mission returned their first images as they journey away from Earth. On November 21, one of the two spacecraft used its Visible and
Pasadena, Calif. (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 - Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to subsurface observations of Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revisited and raised new questions about
Bremen, Germany (AFP) Nov 26, 2025 - NASA has confirmed that it will contribute to Europe's Martian rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028 after repeated delays, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 - NASA's second CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission is underway with four volunteers - Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer - beginning a 378-day s
Upton, NY (SPX) Nov 21, 2025 - To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent its Mars rover Per
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2025 - NASA's ESCAPADE mission has initiated its journey as two identical spacecraft, designed to study Mars' magnetosphere, separated and deployed from Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage. Both probes wil
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025 - Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi have discovered evidence that water once permeated beneath the surface of Mars, indicating the red planet may have remained suited for life longer than s
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 13, 2025 - Travelling up from Mars's equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked by deep valleys, speckled craters, and signs of an ancient ice ag
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2025 - A meteoroid impact near Apollinaris Mons on Mars produced streaks and more than a hundred fresh markings across the slopes, as recorded by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on December 24, 2023. The C
Berkeley, CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2025 - The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaver
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2025 - Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science and the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad have shown that baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can endu
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 - Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the Red Planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researcher
