Mars

Before she went into acting, Hilary Swank was one of those kids who looked up at the sky and dreamed of blasting off to outer space

NASA’s latest mission to Mars is officially underway. The Perseverance rover lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:50 a.m. California time Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket. Several San Diego-based companies were watching closely, including ATA Engineering in Sabre Springs. “Every time I watch a launch I get goosebumps and tears in my eyes,” said Tricia Sur, Vice President...

Some pieces of San Diego are on board the newest Mars rover. NBC 7s Audra Stafford explains how they got there

At least three San Diego-based companies played roles in Thursday’s launch of the Mars Perseverance rover, reports NBC 7’s Audra Stafford

NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday morning.

A new and better-equipped exploration rover is on its 300 million-mile journey to Mars Thursday morning after lifting off from Cape Canaveral on the Florida coast.  Rover Perseverance is hitching a ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket that blasted off at about 4:50 a.m. California time. NASA’s science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen, pronounced the launch the…

Michael Mo, the CEO of San Diego-based KULR Technology, dishes on how his company partnered with NASA to play a vital role in the current mission sending the Mars rover Perseverance to the red planet.

You’re invited to participate in a virtual experience as NASA gets ready to launch its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The launch is scheduled for 4:50 a.m. PDT, Thursday, July 30 in Cape Canaveral, FL. The rover will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. After landing, the rover will be collecting rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth....

China has launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in an attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet

A United Arab Emirates spacecraft has rocketed away on a seven-month journey to Mars.

SpaceX’s wild ride to the first commercial space taxi launch started with a dream of Mars and lots of failures. In late May, the California company will try to send two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

People across the country are adapting to a work from home lifestyle, including the team running NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity launched in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012. It is part of the four rovers NASA has sent to reveal new discoveries on Mars since 1997. A fifth rover is set to launch this year. On…

NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.

A dune formation found on Mars would seem — without knowing the story of dunes, lava and wind behind it — highly illogical. Many fans of the show “Star Trek” are noting one particular dune “footprint” looks curiously like the show’s logo. But scientists say this is just a coincidence. Here’s why: A long time ago, there were large crescent-shaped...

Starting Tuesday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows online , along with wind speed and atmospheric pressure from the InSight lander.

NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the red planet. The six-wheeled vehicle that helped gather critical evidence that ancient Mars might have been hospitable to life was remarkably spry up until eight months ago, when it was finally...

NASA’s seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun. Officials said Wednesday they’re hopeful the rover will survive the storm, which already covers one-quarter of Mars and is expected to encircle the planet in another few days. It could be weeks or even...