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Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 23, 2024 People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 15, 2024 Voyager Space (Voyager) announced it has received a Collaborative Announcement Notice (CAN) from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to develop an airlock [...]

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 14, 2024 Scientists are investigating Martian sediments to understand early environmental conditions and potential signs of past life. Sediments collected by the Curiosity rover from Gale [...]

Paris, France (SPX) May 07, 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has recently shared an image of northwest Namibia that could easily be mistaken for the Martian surface. The image showcases [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 02, 2024 Advancements in space technology may soon allow humans and cargo to travel to Mars efficiently and quickly. Existing spacecraft require significant velocities due [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 02, 2024 The vision of a permanent human settlement on Mars is drawing closer to reality, and with it, the challenge of ensuring food security for [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2024 The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 26, 2024 China is on course to potentially be the first nation to return Martian soil to Earth, in what is considered a significant scientific and [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 26, 2024 ESA's Hera mission, aimed at planetary defense, will utilize a Mars flyby in March next year to gain velocity as it heads towards the [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2024 In an effort to further humanity's journey to Mars, NASA has carefully selected a diverse group of four volunteers to undergo an intensive [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 10, 2024 Thales Alenia Space has finalized a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), valued at euro 522m, to progress the ExoMars 2028 mission. The [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2024 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover's recent analysis has revealed that its latest rock core sample, collected on March 11, experienced prolonged water exposure in [...]

Pasadena CA (JPL (SPX) Apr 01, 2024 Studying the atmosphere with Perseverance can be challenging! Imagine spotting an interesting cloud in a photo taken yesterday unlike something interesting on the [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 28, 2024 Celebrating a significant milestone, ESA's Mars Express has completed its 25,000th orbit around Mars, capturing yet another breathtaking view of the Red Planet to [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 27, 2024 In a major effort, European researchers have completed the most comprehensive geological survey of Mars' Oxia Planum, the designated landing site for the European [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2024 A unified bipartisan effort led by Representatives Mike Garcia (CA-27), Judy Chu (CA-28), and Adam Schiff (CA-30) has emerged, with a strongly worded [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 Earlier this year, Madelyn Hoying, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and Wing Lam (Nicole) Chan, an MIT [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 At the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists unveiled the discovery of a colossal volcano, provisionally named 'Noctis [...]

Gainesville FL (SPX) Mar 13, 2024 Is or was there life on Mars? That profound question is so complex that it will not be fully answered by the two NASA [...]

San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2024 Within the next few decades, NASA aims to land humans on the Moon, set up a lunar colony and use the lessons learned [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024 As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection. The car-sized explorer is methodically drilling [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2024 Since methane was first detected in Mars' atmosphere 20 years ago, scientists have struggled to uncover its origins and how it is transported around [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024 NASA has released the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review. This significant step reflects the agency's ongoing commitment to [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 16, 2024 The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, under the leadership of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is gearing up for a historic endeavor with [...]

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 16, 2024 Using impact craters as a dating tool, Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Alexander Morgan has determined maximum timescales for the formation of Martian valley [...]

Pullman WA (SPX) Jan 12, 2024 Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar and Martian-rock dust, an [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2024 The first crew involved in NASA's groundbreaking Mars analog mission, CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), has successfully crossed the halfway mark [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2024 NASA has embarked on its latest 'analog mission' to simulate a journey to Mars, using the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) facility at [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 21, 2023 A team of researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has made a significant discovery using [...]

Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 12, 2023 In December 2022, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected 'disappearance' of a stream of charged particles constantly [...]

Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2023 Nestled just north of the Danube in southern Germany, the Nordlinger Ries presents a striking geological feature: a large, circular depression surrounded by hills, [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2023 Preparations for a safe landing on Earth, such as finding the most even terrain and equipping the appropriate landing gear, are also crucial for [...]

Liege, Belgium (SPX) Nov 10, 2023 An international team led by scientists from the University of Liege has observed, for the first time in the visible range, a glow on [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2023 The Mars InSight mission, since its inception, has shed light on the seismic vibrancy of the Red Planet. The mission's deployment of a seismic [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 08, 2023 NASA is leading humanity's return to the Moon through Artemis. Artemis will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2023 The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface [...]

Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2023 The scene was set: a research base on the Red Planet was struck by a cyberattack and eight teams on Earth had just a [...]

Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2023 A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2023 The Moon and Mars are stated targets of European and international space exploration. However, before humans embark on these journeys, robots will explore inhospitable [...]

Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a [...]

Fairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 22, 2023 The first use of a novel method of analyzing Mars' gravitational force supports the idea that the planet once had an extensive northern ocean. [...]

Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Apr 08, 2021 Enabling the Mars Rover's core operations in the harsh environment on Mars are Kaydon RealiSlim thin-section ball bearings, designed and manufactured by SKF at [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2021 NASA's Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on a two-year mission to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples. [...]

Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Mar 04, 2021 The planet Mars has no global magnetic field, although scientists believe it did have one at some point in the past. Previous studies suggest [...]

Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE) and the Skoltech Digital Agriculture Laboratory and their collaborators from the [...]

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on the surface of the Red Planet next Thursday, key Airbus technology will be on board: the MEDA meteorological [...]

Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 There is no doubt that humans are going to Mars. It is simply a question of how and when. However, there are many fundamental [...]

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio [...]

Irvine CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to [...]

St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms. On Earth, dust particles are viewed mainly [...]