More than 30 scientists across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau are rushing to process data collected by China’s Mars rover, Zhurong, and by the nation’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which is…
Evidence of ancient life may have been scrubbed from parts of Mars, a new NASA study has found. The space agency's Curiosity rover made the surprising discovery while investigating clay-rich…
t has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred…
CURIOSITY'S SKYCRANE MANEUVER In this artist's concept, Curiosity is in the final moments of its descent toward Mars, and is being lowered from the descent stage to the surface on three…
NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It’s tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the…
Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared…
2020_Mars In October 2020 Mars will be roughly the closest it gets to Earth. This close approach is call an "opposition" and means that the Earth and Mars are on…
China’s successful launch of Mars mission seals global era in deep-space exploration Tianwen-1 is the second of three spacecraft set to take off this month for the red planet.…
You can help a Mars Rover’s AI learn to tell rocks from dirt – TechCrunch Curiosity doesn’t navigate on its own; there’s a whole team of people on…
Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, just processed new…
We Just Got Even More Evidence Mars Once Had a Ring Mars - glorious, dusty, complex Mars - may once have been even more dazzling. New research provides even…
Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater – the destination of NASA’s Perseverance…
Unlike Earth, Maybe Mars Didn’t Form With a Subsurface Magma Ocean Researchers thought Mars formed — and potentially created a life-supporting atmosphere — like Earth did. Source: www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/unlike-earth-maybe-mars-didnt-form-with-a-subsurface-magma-ocean
SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets…