NASA Is Locking People Up and Telling Them They're Astronauts Heading for Mars
22 Apr 2024, 11:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is about to start the second simulated mission to Mars in the Human Exploration Research Analog in Houston
12 Hot Wheels Cars Any Person With a Sweet Tooth Will Love
21 Apr 2024, 06:13 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / After seeing these 12 "sweet" Hot Wheels collectibles, you might be tempted to run to the nearest convenience store for a supply of chocolate bars.
People Have Been Pretending to Live on Mars for 200+ Days Now, Proving Mark Watney Right
7 Feb 2024, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced the first simulated Mars mission in the Mars Dune Alpha habitat reached its half point, the four people-strong crew doing just fine
NASA Breaks the Only Helicopter It Flies on Another World, Mission Is Officially Over
26 Jan 2024, 10:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA officially called the end of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission after the aircraft damaged one of its rotors
This Is How We Can Use Water Mining Operations on Mars to Find Life Up There
22 Jan 2024, 13:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program awards for this year calls for reasearch on life on Mars to be done during mining operations
New Cryo Fuel Storage Tank Could Be Humanity's First Space Gas Station En Route to Mars
9 Jan 2024, 13:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of this year's NIAC Phase 1 projects talks about a new cooling method for a cryogenic fuel tank that can be placed in orbit
Cameras Record a Full Day on Mars: Sunrise, Sunset, And a Few Strange Things in Between
29 Dec 2023, 09:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Hazard-Avoidance Cameras on the Curiosity rover recorded 12 hours on the Martian surface for the first time, showing us a full day on an alien world
This Is How a Brand New Rover Plans to Dig Deep, Looking for Little Green Men on Mars
14 Dec 2023, 08:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) released a trailer for the "most accurate animation series made so far of a Mars mission," see it inside
NASA Goes Over the Limits in Testing Artemis Rocket Engines, RS-25s Hold
4 Dec 2023, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the completion of the third-of-12 certification tests for the Artemis V moon rocket engines
Humans Have Been Going to Mars for 60 Years, But They've Never Seen It Like This Before
29 Nov 2023, 16:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA released a never-before-seen image of Mars showing the planet's curvature and atmosphere as seen from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter
Aircraft on Another Planet Is Showing NASA a Thing or Two About Flying
23 Nov 2023, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is now using test flights of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars to inform the development of another generation of off-world aircraft
NASA Has a Most Detailed Map of Water Spots on Mars, Here's What It's Used For
6 Nov 2023, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it now has the most detailed map of underwater ice on the Mars, plans to use it to decide where to land the first crewed mission
There's a Huge Labyrinth Over on Mars, Bird's Eye View of It Reveals Scale of It All
13 Oct 2023, 06:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) compiled a video of the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars showing the enormous size of the place
Ancient Glacier Leaves Its Mark on Mars' Surface, This Is How Ice Once Flowed There
16 Aug 2023, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo of Mars snapped by the HiRISE spacecraft shows a region of the planet when sometime in the distant past a glacier may have flowed
Martian Days Are Getting Shorter as the Planet Speeds Up
8 Aug 2023, 10:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Team of scientists looking at InSight lander data discovered the Red Planet is accelerating the speed of its rotation making local days shorter.
Red Planet Turns Purple, Green and Blue, And It Looks Even More Alien
27 Jun 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA shares two images of Mars snapped by the MAVEN spacecraft, we get to see the alien world in colors so strange for the Red Planet
This Is How Sunrise and Sunset Look Like on Mars, But Not Quite
16 Jun 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA gets creative with a couple of images sent back by the Curiosity rover, gives us a glimpse of the Martian sunrise and sunset
Tech Mimicking How Plants Works Could Be Used to Make Oxygen on the Moon and Mars
13 Jun 2023, 14:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A group of European experts are working to mimic plant photosynthesis as a way to generate oxygen on alien worlds, including the Moon and Mars
It’s Time To Admit It, the Ingenuity Mars-Copter Is the Greatest Aircraft To Ever Fly
13 Jun 2023, 00:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By just about every conceivable metric, Ingenuity is the embodiment of every achievement made in aeronautical engineering made by pioneers the world over
Terrae Novae Plan Shows How Important Europe Is for America's Space Expansion Strategy
26 May 2023, 23:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) has a plan in place to increase its involvement in space exploration, and it's called Terrae Novae