Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews...
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews...
We continue our drive through "Marker Band valley", an area of high interest scientifically, due to strong evidence of sulfates...
NASA is furthering its plans to set up a space station on the moon and send the first astronauts to...
According to new research, Mars may have been born a blue and water-covered world, long before the Earth had even...
Have you ever seen faces on Mars? What about weirdly shaped rocks resembling animals and bones? Rocks with spooky holes...
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. NASA has successfully touched...
For the first time in a little while we're at a new location after a drive in the last plan,...
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a...
If there ever was life on Mars - and that's a huge "if" - conditions during the planet's infancy most...
Curiosity is focused on wrapping up the drill campaign at the Canaima site before hitting the road again. Curiosity started...