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Fact Check: What to Know About 'Otherworldly Wreckage' on Mars Spotted by NASA
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe backshell and parachute helped protect the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent...
NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission
SPACE.com· 3 days agoFrom there, either the Perseverance rover or other small retrieval helicopters — similar to NASA's...
The 'hole' on Mars making headlines could be crucial to Red Planet exploration
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIf that is the case on Mars, then, if the Red Planet ever once had life, those organisms may have...
Fly Over Stunning Martian Trenches In This Reconstruction Of The Red Planet
IFLScience· 3 days agoThe European Space Agency’s Mars Express has been around the Red Planet for two decades and has...
Fly over the scarred canyons of Mars in this breathtaking video from European spacecraft
SPACE.com· 4 days agoThe strikingly diverse surface of Mars is captured in new orbiter flyover footage, providing insight...
NASA Picks 7 Companies to Figure Out How to Get Space Rocks Back From Mars
PC Magazine· 14 hours agoNASA plans to award contracts to seven companies to study affordable ways to transport rock samples from Mars to Earth. NASA put out a call in April for proposals on how that transport could ...
NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods
The Woonsocket Call· 3 days agoNASA is moving forward with ten studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars' surface back to Earth as part of the agency's Mars Sample Return Program.
‘He was an adventurer’: Anthony ‘Tony’ Spear, chance-taking former JPL manager, dies at 87
Pasadena Star-News· 3 days agoAnthony “Tony” Spear, a legendary project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory whose team on NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 found a new way to land safely on the Red& ...
NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial
Ars Technica· 2 days agoNASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue...
Boeing, NASA launch Starliner in first crewed test for spacecraft after slew of setbacks
Semafor via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis puts the Mars mission in fraught territory — at the end of 2023, NASA announced that a mission...