ExoMars Rover Launch Postponed Until 2022 Due to Coronavirus and Additional Testing
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red…
Known for its wide swathes of rippling, textured, gently sloping dunes, the Terra Sabaea region on Mars is home to many fascinating geological features –…
Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of…
Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses of ETH Zurich researchers and their partners reveal that…
To go along with the stunning 1.8-billion-pixel image, a new video offers a sweeping view of the Red Planet. NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its…
Study seeks understanding of how Mars may have once hosted oceans and life. Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history…
Simulations of early impacts produce a mixed Mars mantle and hint at longer timescale for the planet’s formation. The early solar system was a chaotic…
A batch of new papers summarizes the lander’s findings above and below the surface of the Red Planet. A new understanding of Mars is beginning…
InSight finds magnetic field at Martian surface ten times stronger than expected. Fluctuations in field provide clues about upper atmosphere. New data gleaned from the…
While InSight’s seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki…
Engineers have a plan for pushing down on the heat probe, which has been stuck at the Martian surface for a year. After nearly a…
Other orbiters will continue relaying data from Mars surface missions for a two-week period. From February 17 to February 29, 2020, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Mars is very much a world of two halves, as this new image from ESA’s Mars Express highlights, showing where these dramatically different regions come…
SuperCam is a rock-vaporizing instrument that will help scientists hunt for Mars fossils. NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the…
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of…
New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life. Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists…
Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12 students across U.S. to name NASA’s next Mars rover. Now you can help by…
155 students from across the U.S. have been chosen as semifinalists in NASA’s essay contest to name the Mars 2020 rover and see it launch…