After 203 days and 293 million miles, NASA’s latest Mars rover landed safely on the Red Planet. After the usual “seven minutes of terror,” the rover became the fifth vehicle to land on Mars. It touched down in Jezero Crater…
Ingenuity will attempt the first flight on another planet. The four-pound helicopter is strapped to NASA’s Perseverance rover. On Mars, the aircraft will perform a series of test flights to demonstrate if flight is possible. If the missions are a…
A satellite called the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has sent back its first images from Mars. The satellite began orbiting Mars in October. Scientists are currently testing its sensors. The TGO will help scientists study the gases that make up Mars'…
NASA scientists still believe that it’s possible there’s life on Mars, because of measurements of radioactive carbon. Though this evidence has been around for 40 years, scientists are still encouraged by the news and continue to find similarities between Mars…
Buzz Aldrin in 1969 became the second human to walk on the Moon, and now he believes humans could walk on Mars as soon as 2040. Achieving that goal would be a huge challenge. The journey would be complex and very…
NASA scientists found evidence of flowing water on the surface of Mars. If confirmed, this could be a game-changer. Namely, access to water on mars could make a manned voyage there much more likely. But scientists — and non-scientists — still have many…
The United Arab Emirates released plans to launch its first space probe in time for the country’s 50th anniversary in 2021. The mission’s team consists entirely of Emirati scientists, and their probe is called Hope because they believe that their…
U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko left on March 28 for one year aboard the International Space Station. Kelly's identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, was an astronaut, too. He is now retired, but he'll have a very special role to play on…
NASA has found a UK probe that has been lost on Mars since 2003. The UK Space Agency released the probe Beagle2 over Mars more than a decade ago, on Christmas day in 2003. The probe was supposed to land…
NASA hopes its new Orion spacecraft will eventually be able to take humans as far away as Mars. Before the new spaceship can go into deep space, however, it must undergo flight testing closer to home. That starts on Dec. 4, when…