China launches Gaofen environmental monitoring satellite
A Chinese Long March 4C rocket lifts off with the Gaofen 5-02 remote sensing satellite. Credit: CASC China launched an...
Buttes on Mars may serve as radiation shelters
Mars has a "bad reputation" for its high exposure to radiation and it has neither a magnetic field nor a...
China develops prototype Mars helicopter
The newly developed and recently unveiled prototype miniature helicopter drone, a possible means to support China's Mars missions, is designed...
Mars: Perseverance rover takes a sample, Ingenuity notches 13th flight
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has drilled and encapsulated the first rock sample ever taken on another planet, while the accompanying...
NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock
NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over...
NASA's Perseverance rover collects first rock sample
NASA's Perseverance rover has completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter set to fly lower for detailed surface imaging
Following Flight 12's scouting images of "South Seitah," which were the most valuable Ingenuity has taken to date, we are...
After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and...
Russian spacewalkers begin outfitting new lab module
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy works outside the International Space Station to electrically connect a new Russian laboratory module to the outpost....