Mars rover
October 5, 2018
It’s having memory issues. The past few months have been pretty rough on NASA’s Mars rovers. Opportunity is still not responding to NASA’s frequent missives, and […]
August 29, 2017
WASHINGTON — NASA is studying a “lean” architecture for Mars sample return that could allow the agency to bring back Martian rocks as soon as the […]
June 9, 2017
It was 8:43 p.m. Beijing Time on Nov. 3, 2016 on a clear day at the Wenchang launch center in China. The China National Space Administration […]
December 11, 2015
If you want to build the massive Death Star seen in the movie “Star Wars,” you may want to talk to Brian Muirhead, the chief engineer at […]
November 18, 2015
On September 29, NASA described its astrobiology program to a Congressional House Committee, emphasizing its need for a joint effort from varied academic disciplines and the development […]
July 10, 2015
The $2.5 billion Mars rover, Curiosity, was launched on November 26, 2011, and landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, after a 350-million-mile journey. While Curiosity’s […]
June 26, 2015
In an open invitation to the entire scientific and human spaceflight communities, NASA has announced it will accept suggestions on where to land humans on Mars. The agency […]
January 8, 2015
Looking back at the year 2014—some breakthroughs in both biochemistry and astronomy have made the prospects for finding life more probable in our solar system and elsewhere. Two […]
September 1, 2014
A photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz last week with claims that the robot had found a “thigh bone” on the […]