NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has captured a magnificent postcard from the Red Planet – a 360-degree panoramic view of features called 'Murray Buttes', combining more than 130 images taken on the fourth anniversary of probe's landing on the red planet.
Alien hunters believe that there was a primitive ocean on Mars that had more water than the Arctic Sea. A broken seashell spotted on the surface further indicates that life once inhabited the ancient sea.
Washington: Mars and Earth got unusually cosy drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade. The two planets passed at 120.7 million kilometres (75 million miles) away from each other
Washington: Want to become an astronaut and fly to Red Planet? NASA is now accepting applications for future explorers and the final selection list will be announced in mid-2017.Those chosen may fly on any of
Washington: Inspired by astronaut Mark Watney, a character played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in the critically acclaimed movie "The Martian", scientists have published the first case study on how future astronauts can learn to
Washington: As NASA is planning to send humans on Mars by 2030, its researchers back on the Earth are experimenting with astronauts for whom readapting to gravity and walking through the obstacle course after a
Washington : The US space agency is seeking innovative ideas from students for generating a novel technology that can help land heavy manned spacecrafts safely and swiftly on the surface of Red Planet.Called inflatable spacecraft
Bengaluru: India's Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, has sent home stunning 3D images of the Red Planet's Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the solar system.The images taken by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) onboard Mangalyaan
Washington: Five active spacecrafts are now orbiting the Red Planet, including one from India, leaving NASA with no option but to beef up traffic monitoring, communication and manoeuvre planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do
Washington: In its bid for the next giant leap to Mars, NASA is seeking ideas for enabling human explorers to safely land, live and work on the Red Planet.NASA's first "Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for
Washington: NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft will complete its 60,000th orbit on June 23 since arriving at the Red Planet in 2001.Jim Green, NASA's director of Planetary Science, said that this orbital milestone is an opportunity
Bengaluru: The country's low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US' National Space
Washington: After a series of weather-related delays, NASA has successfully tested its revolutionary "flying saucer" that will help land heavier payloads on the surface of long-distance planets, including Mars.NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed
Washington: From June 7 to June 21, NASA's Mars Missions will not beam any new data to the Earth as the Red Planet goes behind the Sun and the spacecraft and rovers take their biennial
Washington: The US space agency has sought ideas from people about what is necessary to ensure a continuous human presence on the Red Planet.The new NASA challenge invites public to write down their ideas, in
Washington: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is all set to drill into a crystal-rich rock on the Red planet to find out salt mineral left behind when lake water evaporated, says an Indian-American scientist associated with
London: A British-led group is planning to grow lettuce on the Red Planet for future dwellers, media reports said.The plan has been proposed by a group of students at Southampton University to send a greenhouse
Washington: The US space agency is planning to test inflatable spacecraft technology for future missions to Red Planet.For this, NASA scientists are considering to use a blow-up heat shield which resembles stacking ring of doughnuts
New York: Hunters of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have spotted an object that looks strangely like a coffin on the Martian surface.In the video posted on YouTube, spotting the alien coffin is difficult to view
London: An international team has performed a detailed analysis of organic carbon traces from a Martian meteorite, concluding that life on Red Planet is more probable than previously thought.The scientists argue that carbon could have
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