Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2020 - More than halfway to the Red Planet, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover isn't just shuttling sophisticated science instruments and tubes to be filled with Earth-bound rock samples. It's carrying symbols
London, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 - Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of biomining will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they nee
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 - The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study
St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 - When it comes to water and Mars, there's good news and not-so-good news. The good news: there's water on Mars! The not-so-good news? There's water on Mars. The Red Planet is very cold; w
Vienna, Australia (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 - Of course, there is no weather in our sense of the word in space - nevertheless, soil can also weather in the vacuum of space if it is constantly bombarded by high-energy particles, such as those
London, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2020 - The two parachutes that will safely deliver the UK's first ever Mars vehicle to the Red Planet have completed their first full-scale high altitude drop test Once the European Space Agency (ESA
Nicosia (AFP) Nov 27, 2020 - International and Cypriot experts on Friday discussed a research project to test space equipment on the Mediterranean island before sending it to Mars to measure the age of its rocks, officials said.
Paris (ESA) Nov 27, 2020 - You're controlling your very own space agency at the dawn of the space age, with the ultimate goal of setting foot on the surface of Mars. Which technologies should you research? Which rockets shoul
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2020 - NASA's Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen that, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not just for breathing, but also for fuel. One of the hardest things
Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2020 - Elevation can be deceiving in satellite imagery of Mars, even when differences are extreme - as demonstrated by this image of Pyrrhae Regio from ESA's Mars Express. A chunk of terrain has collapsed
Ithica NY (SPX) Nov 22, 2020 - Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars' equator around 4 billion years ago - a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2020 - A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space. While another mic aboard the rover is intended specifica
London, Canada (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 - NASA is working towards sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan, the flight crew's return trip to the red planet will take about two-and-half years. That's a long time to spend
Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2020 - The parachute system that will help deliver the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover to Mars has completed the first full-scale high altitude drop test with redesigned elements following two unsuccessful
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 - Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft have discovered that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is lofted higher into th
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 - The uranium-bearing mineral zircon is an abundant constituent of Earth's continental crust, providing information about the age and origin of the continents and large geological features such as mou
