London, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2021 - With Elon Musk keen to settle on Mars, and NASA planning its own human missions, there's more to it than finding a safe place to land on the red planet. When it's no longer just robots, rovers and d
Beijing (XNA) May 22, 2021 - The Chinese Martian rover Zhurong moved from its landing platform onto the surface of the Red Plane at 10:40 am Saturday, starting its exploration around the landing site, according to the China Nat
Beijing (XNA) May 22, 2021 - China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface Saturday, leaving the country's first footprints on the red planet. Zhurong's first successful drive
Paris (ESA) May 21, 2021 - A series of ground-based high-speed extraction tests confirm the readiness of a new and upgraded parachute and bag system for a high-altitude drop test in early June, part of critical preparations t
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 21, 2021 - A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with implications for the Red Planet's past habitability. A NASA team has found that organic salts a
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 21, 2021 - Plans are underway for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make its sixth flight on the Red Planet in the next week. The flight is the first to be executed during the helicopter's operations demonst
Beijing (XNA) May 20, 2021 - Two photos and two videos captured by China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 during and after the country's first landing on the red planet were released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on W
Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) May 20, 2021 - China's Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet. More impressively still, China is the first Mars-go
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2021 - Solar panels against an alien landscape, ramps and rods pointing at the Martian horizon - China's first probe on the Red Planet has beamed back its first selfies after its history-making landing last week.
Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2021 - China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, during a busy time for Martian exploration.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2021 - When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took to the Martian skies on its third flight on April 25, the agency's Perseverance rover was there to capture the historic moment. Now NASA engineers have ren
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2021 - NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy serving as a communications base station for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and documenting the rotorcraft's historic flights. But the rover has also been busy
Washington DC (UPI) May 11, 2021 - Nearly one year after landing on Mars, scientists say China's Zhurong rover collected data indicating water may have existed on the planet over a longer period of time than previously thought.
Washington (AFP) May 8, 2021 - NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter's blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2021 - Around the time of our first flight, we talked a lot about having our Wright brothers moment at Mars. And that makes a lot of sense, since those two mechanically-minded bicycle builders executed t
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 07, 2021 - Evidence of recent volcanic activity on Mars shows that eruptions could have taken place within the past 50,000 years, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist David Horvath says.
