In the following weeks, Perseverance will test its robotic arm and take its first, short drive.
February 20, 2021There is a knotty problem of defining hunger, subjectively and objectively, and differentiating it from starvation on the one hand and malnutrition on the other. Hunger literally means the physiological desire to consume food. But this subjective definition does not lead automatically to an understanding of the extent of food deprivation.
August 23, 2020NASA will also have its first all-female spacewalk at the end of the month, when astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will get to float around in space.
March 13, 2019Two sensors picked up the vibrations: an air pressure sensor inside the lander and a seismometer on the lander’s deck, awaiting to be deployed to the surface by InSight’s robotic arm.
December 8, 2018Working with US companies is the next step to achieving long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and Mars, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.
November 28, 2018A close look at Mars may tell us a lot about Earth and help find the directions required to design future experiments and missions to the Red Planet.
November 28, 2018NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, that is currently orbiting the Red Planet, relayed the signals.
November 27, 2018Musk's spaceship designed for interplanetary travel 'Starship' is a fully reusable vehicle designed to take humans and supplies to Mars and also to dramatically cut travel time within Earth.
November 26, 2018Season 2 of National Geographic’s series MARS –returns with a six-episode arc continuing in last season’s unique hybrid format: alternating scripted and documentary sequences to predict what life will be like on the Red Planet forecasted by what’s happening today on Earth.
November 8, 2018Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes.
August 6, 2018Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, will be 57.6 million kilometres from Earth on Tuesday, the closest it has been since 2003
July 31, 2018Bad weather thwarted the cosmic display in several parts of the world.
July 28, 2018There’s more to this week, celestially, than the longest lunar eclipse of the century!
July 28, 2018The total eclipse lasts 1 hour and 43 minutes, with the entire event lasting closer to four hours.
July 28, 2018After a partial solar eclipse on July 13, get ready to witness century's longest total lunar eclipse on July 27-28 and then Mars coming closest to the Earth in 15 years on July 31
July 12, 2018Scientists say ‘ingredients for life’ on the Red Planet bring us closer than ever to finding extra-terrestrials.
June 13, 2018NASA has confirmed it is sending an autonomous helicopter to Red Planet that will travel with the Mars rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020.
May 12, 2018