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  Rainbow on Mars? ESA reveals stunning pics of 'rusty' red planet, netizens say 'feels like home'

  World | June 27, 2024 18:17 IST

  Stunning pictures of the Mars' desert-looking surface were uploaded by the European Space Agency, which showed layers of yellow clays along with white and blue aluminium deposits and dark eroded rock. Mars is one of the most explored planets in the solar system with efforts to find human life there.

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  Next stop Mars for UAE, China, NASA as 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession

  Science | February 08, 2021 11:27 IST

  After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.

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  NASA set for mission to seek sign of ancient life on Mars

  Science | July 13, 2020 9:15 IST

  NASA and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on Sunday that NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, and its Martian helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity, were mated with the Atlas V 541 rocket that will kick off the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.

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  NASA to develop robot bees to explore red planet Mars

  Science | April 04, 2018 17:27 IST

   The Marsbees will fly out from a mobile base – probably a rover like Curiosity – map terrain, take samples and search for signs of life on the red planet.

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  Mars has a huge, twisted tail and it could be destroying its atmosphere

  Science | October 23, 2017 14:31 IST

  Here's why the idea of a human colony on the Red Planet could remain nothing but a distant dream.

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  UAE launches Rs 890 crore Mars Science City project; to consist lab, museum

  Science | October 04, 2017 20:25 IST

  UAE has launched a Rs 890 crore Mars Science City project to provide a "viable and realistic model" to simulate living on the surface of Mars.

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  NASA's 12-year old Opportunity Mars rover all set to explore carved, fluid-filled gully

  World | October 09, 2016 9:15 IST

  NASA's Opportunity Mars rover is all set to drive down the carved, fluid-filled gully that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission, Nasa said. This is the first time

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  US, India to collaborate on Mars exploration

  World | October 01, 2014 7:07 IST

  Washington: India and the US, after sending their own respective spacecraft into Mars' orbit, have now agreed to cooperate on future explorations of the Red Planet, which America said will yield ‘tangible benefits' to both

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  India scales down Mars mission

  India | January 06, 2013 19:19 IST

  Kolkata,Jan 6: India's bid to explore Mars will be a scaled down affair with the space agency flying experimental payload of less than 15 kg as against 25kg planned originally.The Mars Orbiter Mission, expected to

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  Curiosity finds whiff of possible life on Mars

  World | December 04, 2012 15:43 IST

  Washington, Dec 4: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found tantalising clues that life may have once existed on the Red planet, but scientists said it was too early to make much of the first soil