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Curiosity Spent The Holidays At 'Grandma's House'
NASA's Curiosity rover worked through the holiday season on Mars by taking a close look at an intriguing bit of Martian terrain, a region scientists have lovingly nicknamed "Grandma's House."The...
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A Mission To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains
NASA's dream of sending humans to Mars by 2035 might face a new roadblock. For the first time, researchers found that exposure to radiation in deep space could harm astronauts' brains by speeding up...
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Newly-Discovered Martian Meteorite Is Unlike Any Other Rock From Mars
A water-rich Martian meteorite is unlike any meteorite scientists have ever found from the Red Planet. The meteorite has about ten times more water than other Martian meteorites, according to the...
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A Translucent Rock Feature Has Been Spotted By Curiosity Rover's Cameras
The Curiosity rover has snapped images of a transparent object on the Martian surface that readers at discussion forum Above Top Secret have dubbed a "Martian flower" because it is shaped like a...
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Simulated Mission To Mars Makes Crew Sleepy And Sluggish
Only four people have spent more than a year in space, the record being 437 days set by Valery Polyakov on the Mir space station, but this century humans are expected to take the long trip to Mars....
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What Mars Would Look Like With Oceans And Life
What if instead of dust and rocks, our planetary neighbor Mars were a bit more lush? What if it had oceans, an Earth-like atmosphere, and green life coating its land?These are the questions Kevin Gill,...
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Curiosity Rover Brushes Dust Off A Rock And Reveals White Patch
The Curiosity rover used the Dust Removal Tool at the end of its robotic arm for the first time to sweep some soil off of a Martian rock. The image above shows a patch of rock, called "Ekwir_1,"...
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If You Want To Take Part In A One Way Trip To Mars Starting In 2023, You Must...
If you've always dreamed of going to Mars, 2013 may be the year to get the ball rolling.Mars One, a Dutch-based non-profit seeking to send people to Mars, has put up an advertisement seeking...
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Curiosity Prepares For Its Biggest Engineering Task Since Landing On Mars
The Curiosity rover is gearing up for its biggest engineering task since landing on the surface Mars: Drilling into a rock on the Red Planet. The mission team has identified a flat rock within a...
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Giant Mars Crater Shows Evidence Of Ancient Lake
New photos of a huge crater on Mars suggest water may lurk in crevices under the planet's surface, hinting that life might have once lived there, and raising the possibility that it may live there...
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The Very First Pictures Of Mars At Night
Mars Curiosity Rover just downloaded some great pictures of Mars at night. These were the first the rover has taken of the Red Planet at night. Check them out below.Here's a picture of Martian rock...
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NASA Employees Almost Mutinied Over Living On Mars Time
Having an extra 40 minutes in your day sounds awesome to some people, but after months of living on Mars time (their day is 40 minutes longer than our day here on Earth) NASA employees were on the...
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This Little Robot Will Help Turn Mars Dust Into Rocket Fuel
At 100 pounds and just 2.5-feet tall, NASA's newest planet-roaming robot could easily become roadkill in a match-up with the one-ton Mars Curiosity rover. Fortunately, this little robot isn't headed...
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Curiosity Taps Into Its First Martian Rock, Which May Have Once Held Water
NASA's Curiosity rover is preparing for its biggest engineering task since landing on Mars. On Feb. 2, the rover's 176th sol on Mars, Curiosity used the bit of the drill on its robotic arm to "tap"...
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This Drill Bit May Be The Key To Finding Life On Mars
The image above is a head-on view of the tip of the drill bit on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. It may look threatening when it's right in your face, but the bit is actually just .6 inch wide — in other...
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Curiosity Made A Tiny Hole On Mars
In a planned test of the drilling system on the Curiosity rover, NASA scientists drilled a 0.8 inch deep hole into a Martian rock named "John Klein." The hole is 0.63 inches across.They are still...
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Curiosity Grabs Mars Rock Samples For The First Time
NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into a Martian rock and collected samples, marking the first time any robot has ever performed this complicated maneuver on the surface of another planet.The 1-ton...
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The First Sample From A Rock On Mars Isn't Red — It's White!
A couple of weeks ago, NASA's Curiosity rover used the drill on her robotic arm for the first time to drill into a Martian rock and collect a powered sample from the inside of that rock. The rock,...
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This Millionaire Is Reportedly Planning A Trip To Mars Within Five Years
Millionaire Dennis Tito, 72, became the first private citizen to fly into space in 2001. Now the entrepreneur, who made is fortune as the founder of California-based investment firm Wilshire...
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NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Bobak Ferdowsi On The Perks Of NASA, Space Camp, And His...
This is part of our series on the Sexiest Scientists Alive.Bobak Ferdowsi, the mystery man who made waves over the summer for his rocker hairdo during NASA's Curiosity Rover landing on Mars, has...
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