NASA awards $750,000 in competition to convert carbon dioxide into sugar
On Earth, plants and ocean microbes use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide, or CO2, into sugars for energy. Humans don't...
Blue and Gold satellites headed to Mars in 2024
An interplanetary mission led by the University of California, Berkeley, to put two satellites - dubbed "Blue" and "Gold" -...
Martian snow is dusty, could potentially melt, new study shows
Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed...
Curiosity Mars Rover explores a changing landscape
Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA's Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall)...
China's astronauts make spacewalk to upgrade robotic arm
Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space...
Trio of orbiters shows small dust storms help dry out Mars
By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a...
Mars mission outcomes to advance space research
China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission has generated a great deal of engineering and scientific data that will extensively advance research...
Aviation Week awards NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with laureate
The "little helicopter that could" has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 12th Mars flight
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed its 12th flight on Mars, officials said early Tuesday, as it scouts out the Martian terrain...
Mars Perseverance team assessing first sampling attempt
Data sent to Earth by NASA's Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and...