Washington DC (UPI) Aug 17, 2021 - NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed its 12th flight on Mars, officials said early Tuesday, as it scouts out the Martian terrain for the Perseverance land rover.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2021 - By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out the Red Planet. Dust storms heat up highe
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 16, 2021 - A group of scientists have developed a plasma-based method of producing and separating oxygen on Mars, according to a study published Thursday.
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2021 - One photo taken recently by NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars showed an unusual noodle-like object lying on the surface of the Red Planet, but scientists have an explanation.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2021 - The little helicopter that could has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network in the form of a 2021 Laureate Award. The Laureate Awards h
Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 10, 2021 - In 2012, NASA landed the rover Curiosity in the Gale crater on Mars because the crater was thought by many scientists to be the site of an ancient lake on Mars more than 3 billion years ago. Since t
Beijing (XNA) Aug 06, 2021 - China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 800 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Ad
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 - Mars is calling! NASA is seeking applicants for participation as a crew member during the first one-year analog mission in a habitat to simulate life on a distant world, set to begin in Fall 2022.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2021 - As NASA ventures farther into the cosmos, the astronaut experience will change. In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA will study how highly motivated individua
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2021 - Data sent to Earth by NASA's Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during the initial sampling
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2021 - We're heading northwest for the 11th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will happen no earlier than Wednesday night, Aug. 4. The mission profile is designed to stay ahead of the rover
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2021 - Aided by the latest photos from Mars helicopter Ingenuity, NASA's robotic rover Perseverance prepared to drill its first rock sample, the space agency said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2021 - Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photo or two from their mission. For Kevin Hand, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and co-lead of the Perseve
Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2021 - The first science tests for the ExoMars rover replica kicked off after several weeks of driving tests around the Mars Terrain Simulator at the ALTEC premises in Turin, Italy. With the locomoti
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2021 - Where there's water, there's life. That's the case on Earth, at least, and also why scientists remain tantalized by any evidence suggesting there's liquid water on cold, dry Mars. The Red Planet is
University Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2021 - A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely common on Earth, suggests the existence of a substantial wat
