Scientists hope to place Curiosity on flat ground at the foot of Mount Sharp inside…
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NASA scientists successfully completed the second of six planned trajectory correction maneuvers and confirmed the…
A recent image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars…
Ten years and counting. The Thermal Emission Imaging System onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has…
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region…
Recent images from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Researchers from Imperial College London have been studying and analyzing individual particles of Martian soil…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has finally returned with some strong evidence of Martian…
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA’s…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now…
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars,…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to…
On January 11, 2012, NASA is planning to conduct the biggest trajectory maneuver for the…
After losing contact back in November, the Russian Space Agency admits failure. The Russian Phobos-Ground…
Whenever we send a spacecraft or rover to another planet NASA is very careful to…
We’re heading back to Mars to search for any clues that might indicate life has…