Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 - After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater Feb.18, 2021, a rugged expanse chosen for its scientific research and sample
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2021 - A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a Mars base. Where to start? Like any human settlement, it would be be
Dubai (AFP) Feb 9, 2021 - A tense half-hour on Tuesday will determine the fate of the UAE's Hope probe to Mars, as the Arab world's first space mission carries out a tricky manoeuvre to enter the Red Planet's orbit.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 - Areas featuring subsurface frozen water ice that could benefit future human explorers have been identified in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars, a new paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senio
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 8, 2021 - A new era of Mars exploration will begin Monday with the expected arrival of the United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft in the vicinity of the Red Planet - the first of three such arrivals planned for February.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 8, 2021 - NASA has started the early processes of constructing a $194 million small rocket that will launch from Mars, which will be the first known rocket launch from another planet.
Beijing (XNA) Feb 08, 2021 - China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe conducted its fourth orbital correction on Friday evening, as the spacecraft makes ready for its arrival in orbit around Feb 10, according to the China National Space Ad
Dubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2021 - The first Arab space mission, the UAE's Hope probe, is expected to reach Mars' orbit on Tuesday, making it the first of three spacecraft to arrive at the Red Planet this month.
Dubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2021 - When Sarah al-Amiri was a child growing up in Abu Dhabi with a fascination for space, her young country seemed light years away from reaching for the stars.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2021 - China's Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year.
Tempe AZ (The Conversation) Feb 05, 2021 - Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars missions. On Feb. 18, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at
Birmingham UK (The Conversation) Feb 05, 2021 - Looking at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new space race. Not only has it been the only country to land on the Moon in about 40 years, and the f
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2021 - A laser-light sensor that can identify bacteria in a wound may sound far-fetched, but it's already becoming a reality, thanks in part to NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The technology is going to M
Leioa, Spain (SPX) Feb 04, 2021 - The IBeA research group from the University of the Basque Country's Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, is participating in NASA's Mars2020 space mission, which is
Mountain View CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2021 - A team of researchers led by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop, a member of the SETI Institute NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team, has come up with a theory about what is ca
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2021 - NASA and three international partners have signed a statement of intent to advance a possible robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help identify abundant, accessible ice for future candidat
