Mars

NASA Test Fires SLS Flight Engine Destined to Launch Astronauts Back to the Moon

NASA engineers have successfully test fired the first flight engine destined to power the agency’s mammoth new SLS rocket that…

9 years ago

Comet Created Chaos In Mars’ Magnetic Field

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft captured the chaotic rendezvous between Mars and comet Siding Spring in 2014.

9 years ago

InSight Mars Lander Saved from Termination, Reset to 2018 Blastoff

The Insight Mars lander has been saved from mission termination and will live to launch another day two years from…

9 years ago

MRO: Ten Years Of Breathtaking Work Above Mars

Hooray for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! Ten years of ground-breaking science (and eye candy.)

9 years ago

First Tomatoes, Peas Harvested From Simulated Martian Soil

Martian colonists will need to grow their own food, and researchers in Netherlands are trying to understand how suitable Martian…

9 years ago

ExoMars 2016 Spacecraft Encapsulated for Red Planet Launch in One Week

Final launch preparations are now in full swing for the ambitious European/Russian ExoMars 2016 spacecraft which has been encapsulated inside…

9 years ago

India’s MOM Publishes Amazing Mars Images

Science—like literature and the arts—helps nations cooperate together, even when they're in conflict politically. The USA and Russia are in…

9 years ago

Scott Kelly Arrives Back On Earth and the USA from Year in Space! Enjoys Dip in His Pool

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s first ever ‘Year in Space’ astronaut Scott Kelly was in good shape and smiling…

9 years ago

An Ancient Volcanic Cataclysm Spun Mars Off Its Poles

Ancient volcanic activity on a massive scale helped make Mars what it is today.

9 years ago

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns from a Historic Year in Space on Station

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian cohort Mikhail Kornienko successful returned to Earth late…

9 years ago