Mars
InSight’s Heat Probe Has Bounced Back Out Of Its Hole
This is sad news. After finding what seemed like a solution to the Mole's difficulties on Mars, engineers are stymied…
Success! NASA Confirms the Mole is Working Again.
After months of setbacks, NASA says that the InSight Lander's Mole is working again. InSight landed on Mars on Nov.…
There’s the Curiosity Rover, On the Move, Seen from Space
If the Curiosity rover was paranoid, would it feel like it was being watched? Well, it is being watched, by…
It Looks Like it’s Working! NASA InSight’s Mole is Making Progress Again Thanks to the Arm Scoop Hack
NASA and the DLR are making some progress with the Mole. The Mole has been stuck for months now, and…
This Dried Up Riverbed Shows that Water Once Flowed on the Surface of Mars
From some viewpoints, Mars is kind of like a skeleton of Earth. We can see that it had volcanoes, oceans,…
Curiosity Finds A Region of Ancient Dried Mud. It Could Have Been an Oasis Billions of Year Ago
What happened to Mars? If Mars and Earth were once similar, as scientists think, what happened to all the water?…
Here’s NASA’s New Plan to Get InSight’s Temperature Probe Into Mars
The mole is still stuck. The mole is the name given to the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)…
InSight Has Already Detected 21 Marsquakes
The SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument on NASA's InSight lander has sensed 21 Marsquakes since it was deployed…
What Will It Take To Feed A Million People On Mars?
In 2017, Elon Musk laid out his grand sweeping plans for the future of SpaceX, the company that would take…
Confirmed. Fossils That Formed 3.5 billion Years Ago, Really are Fossils. The Oldest Evidence of Life Found So Far
The title of Earth's Earliest Life has been returned to the fossils in the Pilbara region of Australia. The Pilbara…