Mars

On January 30, the moon eclipsed mars in what is referred to as an Occultation. That’s when a planet disappears from our view directly behind the moon’s left side and reappears an hour later on the opposite side. Only a small portion of the planet was able to see the occultation, including areas between southern California all the way to...

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. The lander has fallen silent after four years of operation.

NASA has set a new window for the test launch of the Artemis I rocket due to storm preparations

A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface. Scientists reported Monday that Mars InSight has detected seismic and acoustic waves from a series of impacts in 2020 and 2021. A satellite orbiting the red planet confirmed the impact locations, as far as 180 miles from the lander. Scientists are delighted...

NASA on Thursday provided a look at what has been gathered during an amazing mission to Mars.

James Free, associate of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development, spoke Friday about the longterm goals of the Artemis moonshot program. “We want to stay on the lunar surface and learn on the lunar surface so that we can get the most science [to] know how we’re going to go to Mars.”

Five planets will be visible to stargazers without a telescope beginning this weekend and lasting through the end of June.

NASA says its Ingenuity helicopter recently discovered and surveyed the wreckage of the equipment that helped land the “Perseverance” rover mission on Mars in 2021.

The interplanetary photo op was conducted earlier this month by the helicopter, NASA reported.

China has had some notable space successes in the past few years including sending an uncrewed mission to Mars and starting construction of its own space station.

Costa Rican American astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz saw the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the pollution of the world’s oceans happen over 20 years in trips to space. These days, after making history as the first Latino astronaut to go into space, Chang-Díaz is working on plasma propulsion, a project which could be ready in a few years and drastically...

China’s Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for whether it once supported life

Scientists are searching for signs of life on Mars using the Perseverance rover. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more.

The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian exploration mission complete with spacewalks, limited communications back home, restricted food and resources and equipment failures.