Mars
Martian Explorers Should Be Looking for Fossils
Instead of just looking for current life on Mars, Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer thinks that future missions should…
Rosetta Approaches its Mars Flyby
If you're waiting for the Rosetta mission to really pay off, you're going to need a lot of patience. The…
Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Underground Fluids on Mars
Here's an interesting new result from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Scientists announced today that the spacecraft has turned up evidence…
Imaging Problems for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Although NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is about to break the record for science data returned from the Red Planet, it's…
Martian Probes Need to Dig Deeper
If they want to find life on Mars, future explorers will need to dig down deep under the surface. This…
Looking at Jupiter, From Mars
Guess who took this picture of Jupiter? Hubble? Keck? A well equipped amateur here on Earth? Nope, it was taken…
Looking Down on Mars Pathfinder
Remember the Mars Pathfinder? That plucky little rover that crawled around the surface of Mars back in 1997? Well, the…
NASA Panel Will Investigate Mars Global Surveyor’s Disappearance
Although it lasted years longer than anyone ever expected, the disappearance of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft is still a…
Mars Rovers Learn Some New Tricks
Consider this for a moment. NASA's Mars Exploration rovers are nearing their third anniversary of crawling around the surface of…
Finding Buried Craters on Mars
Many photographs have been taken of Martian landscapes, but now spacecraft are looking beneath the surface to see what's buried…