Mars
When Should Robots Take Risks Exploring Other Worlds?
Researchers from the CMU's Robotic Institute have developed a new method that allows rovers to autonomously weigh risk against the…
Would Mark Watney Have Survived in Real Life, and What This Can Teach Us About Sending Humans to Mars
We want to send humans to Mars eventually, and while this will be both a historic and exciting journey, it…
Clearing the Air on a Trip to Mars: the NASA Particle Partition Challenge!
With $45,000 in prizes, NASA's Particle Partition Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to maintain breathable atmospheres for…
Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield
NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space…
Will Mars finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’
We recently examined how and why the planet Venus could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone? Despite its harsh…
Curiosity Arrives in a Salty Region of Mars. Was it Left Over From a Dying Sea?
The Curiosity rover has now reached its primary target on Mount Sharp on Mars, the mountain in the middle of…
Mars Express Watched Deimos Pass in Front of Jupiter and its Moons
That’s no moon … wait … yes, it is, and more! ESA’s Mars Express has captured an unusual and rare…
Underground Liquid Water Detected on Mars? Maybe not
New research from Cornell University shows that radar reading from Mars' South Pole region may not have been caused by…
A Small Piece of “Foreign Object Debris” Fell off Ingenuity’s Leg During its 33rd Flight
We hope this is just as inconsequential as having a piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe, but images…
Webb Turns its Infrared Gaze on Mars
The first Webb images of Mars were just released by the ESA, revealing spectra from the planet's atmosphere and what…