Here's The Plan To Cram A Married Couple Into A Tiny Space Capsule For 18 Months
Last week, multimillionaire Dennis Tito, 72, announced in a press release that he was planning "a historic journey to Mars and back" in January 2018. More details were revealed in a news conference in...
View ArticleSomething Went Wrong On The Curiosity Rover
This story was published on March 1, 2013.A computer glitch on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has forced the robot to switch to a backup computer while engineers try to resolve the problem.In the...
View ArticleLEGO Made An Awesome Ad To Celebrate The Mars Rover
As NASA's Curiosity Rover explores Mars, LEGO decided to re-imagine what the scene would look like if the famous blocks were on the red planet.And it looks pretty cool.Oreo has been bringing in all the...
View ArticleA Gigantic Flood Carved Up Mars Not Too Long Ago
Researchers have created new maps of Mars that reveal an ancient network of underground channels, likely formed by a gigantic flood. The findings were published online Thursday, March 7, in the journal...
View ArticleToday We Might Find Out If There Was Ever Life On Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover used the drill on her robotic arm for the first time in February to drill into a Martian rock and collect a powered sample from the inside of that rock.The space agency will hold...
View ArticleYes, Mars Could Have Once Supported Life!
After seven months of roaming around the Red Planet, NASA's car-size robot, called Curiosity, has finally provided evidence that Mars could have once supported microbial life, the space agency...
View ArticleNASA Scientist: You Would Have Been Able To Drink The Water On Mars
NASA scientists confirmed on Tuesday that Mars could have once supported microbial life. The results comes from a powder rock sample that the Curiosity rover collected in early February. In that...
View ArticleBeautiful Panorama Of A Giant Mountain On Mars
This image of Mount Sharp on Mars is a composite of images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The photo has been white-balanced so the sky looks much more blue than it really is (it would have a...
View ArticleSoftware Bug Stalls The Curiosity Rover
Plans for the Curiosity rover are on hold after the $2.5-billion robot kicked into into "safe mode" on Saturday following a software error. This is the second software hiccup in Curiosity's seven...
View ArticleLobbyists Have A $2 Million PR Budget To Fight The Idea That Candy Makes You Fat
The National Confectioners' Association — the lobby group representing candymakers such as Mars, Mondelez International, Nestle, and Hershey — is preparing a $2 million PR budget to fight the idea that...
View ArticleNew Mars Photos May Show Russian Lander That Disappeared In 1971
The Soviet Union's Mars 3 lander plopped down on the Red Planet's surface in 1971, making it the first spacecraft to arrive on Mars and then send data back to Earth.The celebration was short-lived.Less...
View ArticleMars Or Utah? Scientists Set Up Fake Space Base In The Desert [PHOTOS]
A manned mission to Mars could happen by the end of this century.The Mars Desert Research Station, located in a remote region of Utah, is helping scientists prepare for this challenging deep space...
View ArticleScientists Spent Weeks In The Desert Pretending They Were On Mars
The San Rafael Swell in central Utah is a massive dome of layered rocks, surrounded by a Delaware-sized maze of deep canyons and multi-colored cliffs.More than a decade ago, Robert Zubrin, author of...
View ArticleHere's My Application For A One-Way Trip To Mars
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div>WATCH: My video application to go to...
View Article78,000 People Have Already Applied For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Mars One, a one-way trip to Mars funded by advertising and sponsorship from a global reality TV show, sounds like fiction. But Dutch founder Bas Lansdorp assured Business Insider that the ambitious...
View ArticleThe First Humans To Live On Mars Need To Be Farmers
WASHINGTON — The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers.To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travelers will have to learn...
View ArticleMajor Chinese Newspaper Calls One-Way Trip To Mars A Hoax
Mars One — a program to send the first humans on a one-way trip to Mars by 2023 all while being documented in a reality-TV series — admittedly sounds far out there.But after talking to Dutch founder...
View ArticleOld Rover Finds More Evidence That Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life
The venerable Mars rover Opportunity, the older and smaller cousin of Curiosity, has discovered another water-weathered rock hinting that the Red Planet could have supported life in its ancient past,...
View ArticleAwesome Time Lapse Video Shows 281 Days Of Roving On Mars
Karl Sanford took snapshots from the Curiosity Rover's first 281 Sols on Mars to make this awesome time lapse. See the rover wander around the surface, check out rocks, and dig in the Martian dirt.He...
View ArticleELON MUSK: We Need To Leave Earth Or Risk Extinction
Colonization of new planets, starting with Mars, is crucial to the survival of the human species, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday night at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital...
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