Tag: Mars

Astronomers have known for quite a while that Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but the Red Planet might also ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, is no stranger to staggering photos. His most famous shot includes the ...

Scientists have found tantalizing evidence regarding Mars' wet past - according to new research, the Red Planet may have once ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for at least a couple of days after a shortcircuit has ...

Mars - our neighbor, the Red Planet... is not actually red. The first look at what’s under Mars’s dusty red ...

Selected from more than 200,000 applicants, 50 men and 50 women have become the final contenders for the one-way trip ...

Mysterious cloud-like formations hovering over Mars challenge our understanding of the Red Planet's climate. Interestingly, amateur astronomers spotted the bizarre ...

The next Mars exploration rover will likely feature a helicopter drone, which is expected to act as scouting drone to ...

Curiosity is preparing for its second drill on Mars - its eyeing a rock which may have a salty story ...

As far as manned spaceflight is concerned, all attention seems to be directed toward Mars, which makes sense after all ...

Only weeks after it became operational around Mars' orbit, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has uncovered a  new process ...

It's like Christmas before Christmas - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has started sending back images it took of the red planet, ...

New evidence beamed back by the Curiosity rover and analyzed by NASA JPL scientists suggests that the Gale Crater on Mars had ...

A NASA probe has taken a picture of a surprising pie-like geological feature on Mars. Scientists are not yet sure ...

In all likelihood, we won't be seeing a manned mission for Mars before 2030, but until this happens forefront research ...

Intricate polygons on Mars could be a clear indication of a wet past for the Red Planet. Most crater floor ...

We were telling you a while ago how India launched a probe towards Mars, and how it was successful in ...

We were telling you yesterday about India's Mangalyaan shuttle, which was set to enter Martian orbit. Here's the update: everything went fine, Mangalyaan ...

India's Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, for short, is gearing up to enter Mars' orbit this Wednesday, after the dormant ...

NASA astronauts will once again travel from the Earth to the International Space Station - under groundbreaking contracts announced today. ...

A brilliant technology reaching its limits Carrying heavier spacecraft to Mars and then safely landing it at supersonic speeds in ...

Mark Lemmon is an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University and a camera operator for numerous Mars missions, ...

The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) attached to the Columbus module of the International Space Station during orbital flight. Image ...

Topographical map of a Martian region showing impact craters. Photo: Antoine Lucas/NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona The Red Planet is dear to many ...

Curiosity rover captures a strange flare on the Martian surface. PHOTO JPL The photo right above was captured by the ...

Artist impression of planetary impact that led to the formation of the moon. photo: NASA A new massive computer model ...

A huge megaflood may have carved the U-shaped canyons we can now see in Idaho some 46,000 years ago. The ...

This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary ...

Geologists have now found the most compelling evidence of granites on Mars - something which prompts more complex theories about ...

(c) Mars Orbiter Mission India is a sort of economic paradox. Its general population is among the poorest in the ...

Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars, and in the solar system for ...

More and more discoveries seem to hint at a watery past for Mars. Now, NASA research shows that hunks of ...

Typically on Earth, days usually have a temperature maximum somewhere after lunch, and a minimum during the night. But for ...

Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled ...

A concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket. In this image, the crew would be in the ...

Billions of years ago, Mars had a much richer atmosphere than it has today, which is rather an understatement considering ...

The Curiosity rover is in a bit of trouble and is currently facing it's longest period of inactivity since its ...

I just finished watching NASA's latest and definitely most important Curiosity briefing to date. There the Curiosity team announced findings ...

Our understanding and appreciation of Mars has greatly shifted in the past decade alone. If previously scientists used to thought ...

Millionaire Dennis Tito, 72, is widely known as the first private citizen to fly into space in 2001. But being ...

Recently, Curiosity rover made its most complex maneuver since it landed on Mars after it drilled a promising rock, offering ...

Ridges of Martian impact craters could be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing ...

(c) Image by ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Using combined imagery delivered by the  High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and recent color channel data, the ...

The ultimate goal of all current Mars missions and observations is that of finding evidence of life or, on the ...

There seems to be consisting evidence supplied both by past and recent rover missions - like the ever sturdy Opportunity, the ...

A real life Peter-Weyland, SpaceX founder and self-made billionaire, Elon Musk, has stirred up controversy with his space exploration claims ...

A study conducted by researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science concluded that both Earth and Mars got their water ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used a mechanism on its robotic arm to dig up five scoopfuls of material from a ...

Felix Baumgartner, the supersonic man who jumped from about 40.000 meters above ground is definitely a man up for new ...

It's dinner time, and you know what there's on the menu? Rocks! Martian rocks, to be more precise. After what ...