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Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA\'s Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz. This area lies just downhill from a geological contact zone the rover has been studying near "Marias Pass" on lower Mount Sharp. In fact, the Curiosity team decided to back up the rover 46 meters (151 f ...

Antarctic Offers Insights Into Life on Mars The cold permafrost of Antarctica houses bacteria that thrive at temperatures below freezing, where water is icy and nutrients are few and far between. Oligotrophs, slow-growing organisms that prefe ...

Opportunity heading into Marathon Valley Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading into \'Marathon Valley.\' On Sol 4072 (July 8, 2015), the rover collected some targeted 13-filter Panoramic Camera (Pancam) images and some N ...

Earth and Mars Could Share A Life History While life is everywhere on Earth, there is much debate about how it began. Some believe it originated naturally from the chemistry found on our planet as it evolved. Others hypothesize that life - ...

Celebrating 50 years of Martian imagery Fifty years ago today, the first image of Mars was beamed back by NASA\'s Mariner 4. The image, which was followed by 22 others, was first closeup of another planet. ...

Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars\' primitive continental crust The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA\'s Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth\'s granitic continental c ...

Never Get Lost on Mars Again With NASA\'s New Red Planet Map An application called \'Mars Trek\', which was released by NASA on Friday, lets you explore the red planet from your computer or mobile phone. The volcanos and craters of Mars can now be explore ...

Opportunity Rover\'s 7th Mars Winter to Include New Study Area Operators of NASA\'s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plan to drive the rover into a valley this month where Opportunity will be active through the long-lived rover\'s seventh Martian winter, examin ...

Pyongyang style: North Korea girl bands rock China\'s border

\'Fleeced, bamboozled\' Kerry defends Iran deal

EU\'s Mogherini to visit Iran, Saudi Arabia next week

Police arrest US teen who built gun-firing drone

India tests locally developed high thrust cryogenic rocket for 800 seconds

Could This Become the First Mars Airplane When an aircraft makes its first flight on Mars in the 2020s, a NASA Armstrong innovation may have made it possible. A prototype of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Pr ...

Opportunity Gets Back to Work Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater at the \'Spirit of St. Louis\' crater near the entrance of \'Marathon Valley.\' The Earth-Mars Solar Conjunction command moratorium and communica ...

NASA wants to send microbes to Mars to prepare for human habitation As NASA considers the possibility of a manned mission to Mars, it may first send another lifeform: microscopic bacteria which could biologically engineer the planet\'s ecosystem, making it more habit ...

Curiosity rover back to work, studying rock-layer contact zone After a few weeks of limited communication with ground controllers, NASA\'s Curiosity rover is back online and doing some science. ...

Curiosity Mars Rover Studies Rock-Layer Contact Zone NASA\'s Curiosity Mars rover is examining a valley where at least two types of bedrock meet, for clues about changes in ancient environmental conditions recorded by the rock. In addition to two rock ...

Researchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee

Mowing dry detention basins makes mosquito problems worse, team finds

Greenland\'s Undercut Glaciers Melting Faster than Thought

Prandtl-m prototype could pave way for first plane on Mars NASA researchers are preparing to test the prototype that may pave the way for the first plane to fly Martian skies. The airplane is called the Prandtl-m. ...

New plan proposed to send humans to Mars A new, cost-constrained U.S. strategy to send humans on Mars, could be achieved within projected NASA budgets by minimizing new developments and relying mainly on already available or planned NASA a ...

Rover In Good Health After Communication Blackout Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater at the \'Spirit of St. Louis\' crater near the entrance of \'Marathon Valley.\' The Earth-Mars Solar Conjunction command moratorium and communica ...

Veteran NASA Spacecraft Nears 60,000th Lap Around Mars, No Pit Stops NASA\'s Mars Odyssey spacecraft will reach a major milestone June 23, when it completes its 60,000th orbit since arriving at the Red Planet in 2001. Named after the bestselling novel "2001: A Space O ...

Scientists find methane in Mars meteorites An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet. The researchers examined samples from six ...

NASA Signs Agreements to Advance Agency\'s Journey to Mars NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements with two European partners to advance Mars exploration and our journey to the Red Planet during meetings Tuesday at the Paris Air Show. Bolden and ...

New study favors cold, icy early Mars The high seas of Mars may never have existed, according to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars and suggests that a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better ...

Construction of 2nd phase of India\'s Kudankulam NPP to start in 2015

Fast, efficient system to produce graphene for energy storage applications

UCLA-led NASA mission provides closest ever look at dwarf planet Ceres

Japanese space agency plans to get samples from Martian moon

Martian glass: Window into possible past life?

NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars

Supersonic NASA parachute torn to pieces in latest test

Rover Ready for Solar Conjunction and Period of Curtailed Operations

NASA Looks to Cut Travel Time to Mars in Half with Superfast Propulsion

United Arab Emirates Hopes to Reach Mars by2021

NASA to test supersonic parachute in flying saucer launch

NASA Begins Testing Next Mars Lander Insight

Is the Curiosity rover polluting Mars with methane?

The Moon or Mars: Flawed Debate, False Choice - Part One

Flawed Debates begets false choices beyond LEO - Part Two

Supersonic decelerator gets a lift to prepare for launch

New Project Aims to Establish a Human Colony on Mars

Could \'Green Rust\' Be A Catalyst For Martian Life?

Curiosity Rover Adjusts Route Up Martian Mountain

Rover Restored to Normal Operations After a Reset

UAE eyes "first Arab unmanned probe" to Mars by 2021

Mars Rover\'s Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision