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
Robot Training for Mars Sample Return Mission Has a Forced Star Wars Connection
26 May 2023, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is hard at work trying to get the procedures for retrieving Martian samples safely before the Sample Return mission launches
The LEGO NASA Perseverance Rover Is How They Turn Kids Into Space Engineers
23 May 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / LEGO officially pulled the wraps off the Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance set, it's a STEM product aimed at kids over ten
A Pack of Eight Dust Devils Dance the Tornado Dance on the Surface of Mars
14 May 2023, 00:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2015 the HiRISE orbital camera captured no less than eight dust devils dancing on the surface of Mars, NASA recently made the photo public
Raised Feature on Mars Looks Like Some Ancient Road, Weirdly Enough It Was Once a River
13 May 2023, 00:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This elevated feature somewhere in the Antoniadi Crater on Mars is actually a former river bed. When seen from space, it looks like the remnants of some road
Martian Rivers Ran Deeper and Faster Than Believed, Got Us Thinking About Aliens Rafting
12 May 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / New data provided by the Perseverance rover on Mars point to ancient rivers there running deeper and faster than previously believed
Upcoming LEGO NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Can Be Controlled With the AR App
7 May 2023, 11:55 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / This new LEGO toy will let young explorers discover what the Red Planet is hiding with the help of a "tiny" friend, Percy, the Mars Rover
Meteoroid Strike on Far Side of Mars Reveals Exciting New Details About Planet's Core
26 Apr 2023, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Data gathered by the InSight lander during a quake caused by a meteoroid impact on Mars helps scientists reveal more about the planet's core
This Is How Miserable the Ingenuity Helicopter Looks After Two Years on Mars
20 Apr 2023, 13:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Shortly after taking its 50th powered flight on Mars, the Ingenuity helicopter was snapped on camera by the Perseverance rover, looking all dusty
NASA Sends OTA Update to a Vehicle 140 Million Miles Away
17 Apr 2023, 12:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Curiosity rover on Mars received its first software update in years, it should now move a bit faster and with more care for its wheels
Someone Planned a Crewed Mission to Mars in the 1960s and It Would Have Been Spectacular
7 Apr 2023, 23:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's former Lewis Research Center came up with a plan in the 1960s to put a human crew on Mars within a decade, the Moon took precedence
Video From Mars Shows Perseverance Rover Drilling the First Hole in a New Area
4 Apr 2023, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Perseverance rover collected the 19th sample of Mars at the end of March, from a place where rivers are believed to have existed
Mars Glider Is an Arrowhead Spacecraft We Should Have Shot at the Red Planet Decades Ago
3 Apr 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Video animation shows a spacecraft idea from the 1960s as it heads over to Mars and back. It's Philip Bono's Mars Glider concept
It’s Official, NASA’s Next Target for Human Crews Is Mars
3 Apr 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA creates the Moon to Mars Program Office aiming not only to advance lunar exploration, but pave the way for the first crewed mission to Mars
NASA 3D-Printed a Piece of Mars Here on Earth, Volunteers to Be Locked Inside for a Year
27 Mar 2023, 09:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA will kick off the first Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission in the Mars Dune Alpha habitat in June
Japanese Spacecraft Going to Mars to Pick on Its Moons, Bring a Piece of One Back to Earth
1 Mar 2023, 11:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Japanese space agency (JAXA) is planning the Martian Moons eXploration mission, a lander will collect Phobos samples and bring them to Earth
Littering an Alien World: Perseverance Rover Shows Map of Where It Stashed Mars Samples
16 Feb 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first depot of ten tubes containing Mars samples has been completed, NASA releases an image showing the location of each tube
This Martian Fan-Made 'Lego Ideas' Build Is a Space Nerd's Dream
10 Feb 2023, 15:26 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / This fan-made Lego Ideas comes with four different machines used by Mark on his Mars journey, including the Pathfinder, the MAV, the rover, and the HAB
NASA Finds “Best Evidence of Water and Waves” on Mars, No Alien Surfboards Yet
9 Feb 2023, 13:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Curiosity rover finds rippled rock textures that may indicate the planet's Mount Sharp was rich in streams and lakes, complete with waves, a long time ago.
Self-Growing Blocks for Human Martian Habitats Need Only Bacteria and Fungi to Work
24 Jan 2023, 12:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Researcher with the University of Nebraska comes up with an idea to use cyanobacteria and fungi to create the building blocks of structure for alien worlds