SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sample Return Mission

Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to private industry for ideas—perhaps with one specific company in mind ... Read More

Europe's upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video)

The genesis of the map was actually a COVID-lockdown project, with 80 trained volunteers characterizing 134 discrete locations each a square kilometer in area based on data from Europe's ExoMars Trace ... Read More

Best geologic map created for a European rover on Mars

The exercise familiarized scientists from different teams with the geology and geography of the landing site years before the rover starts operating on Mars. The Rosalind Franklin science team now ... Read More

Mars News

2024 — Geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the Perseverance rover. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which ... Read More

Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter

"The telemetry confirmed that a software update previously beamed up to Ingenuity was operating as expected," NASA officials wrote in the same statement. "The new software contains commands that ... Read More

Mars rover finally calls home

Nasa received data from the Spirit rover for the first time in two days, ending fears that the Mars mission may have ... Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Scientists said the computer onboard ... Read More

Curiosity Rover Could Force Scientists to Rethink How Mars Lost Its Water

NASA's Curiosity rover has spent the past twelve years trundling around Mars, and it has been so successful ... and it spent the next two years making its way toward Mount Sharp, the central ... Read More

Rocky mesas of Mars captured by HiRISE camera

Mars has many rocky mesas. The above picture, captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows rocky mesas of the ... Read More

Nasa: samples could prove life on Mars – but we can’t afford to bring them home

Nasa has admitted it cannot afford to bring back Mars samples that could prove life once existed on the red planet. Since 2022, Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has been drilling into the Martian surface, ... Read More

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It's expected that Dragonfly will arrive at Titan in 2034, and once it does, it will mark the first time that "NASA will fly a vehicle for science ... Mars samples collected by NASA's Perseverance ... Read More

Moon News

8, 2024 — Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell ... a modern lunar cabin, rover and mobile home. This fixed ... Read More

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