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 ...
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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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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" - ...
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 ...
China's rover travels over 1 km on Mars
China's Mars rover Zhurong had traveled more than 1,000 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Monday, ...
Mars helicopter sees potential rover road ahead
Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Ken Farley, the project ...
NASA's Perseverance plans next sample attempt
In its search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is once again preparing to collect ...
Mars mission to pause for about 50 days
China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission will be inactivated for about 50 days from mid-September due to an expected disruption of ...