Mars

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.

The findings are based on about 35 marsquakes registered by a French seismometer on NASA’s InSight stationary lander, which arrived at Mars in 2018.

Venus and Mars will appear close together, something frequent stargazers might have noticed happening gradually during July. On Monday night and into the early hours, the two planets will be at their closest distance to one another.

China has achieved some notable feats recently including an uncrewed mission to Mars and sending astronauts to its own space station.

The selfie NASA’s Perseverance rover took on the surface of Mars on April 6 was actually 62 images stitched together by JPL scientists to look like one. The process involved over a dozen people and took about a week to code.

Space is an area China wants to lead as part of a broader technology battle with the U.S. NASA plans a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.

The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos the rover took on the red planet

China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest step forward for its ambitious space program

Mars mission team members are trying to figure out what happens next after a tiny experimental helicopter failed to get off the ground during its fourth attempt to fly over the Martian surface.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, designed and built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, flew faster and farther Sunday than in any tests it went through on Earth, officials said.

NASA launched a solar-powered helicopter on the surface of Mars Monday morning.

NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

NASA successfully conducted the first controlled flight on another planet on Monday — its Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew a short flight above the red planet.

San Diego will make its mark on space this weekend when a piece of a local business’s technology will help power a tiny helicopter as it hovers over Mars.

San Diego’s own Qualcomm is known around the world and soon will be known in space since they developed a technology that will help Mars helicopter Ingenuity take flight on the red planet.

A pair of San Diego scientists not only helped plan the mission to Mars, they’re instrumental in running the rover’s cameras, reports NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia.