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ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Parachute Baked Sterile at ESTEC Ahead of 2028 Mars Mission
May 04, 2026 (SPX)
The parachute, weighing 74 kilograms and constructed primarily from nylon and Kevlar fabrics, will be the largest ever flown on Mars - or anywhere else in the S...
Curiosity Begins Drill Campaign at Atacama Site Targeting Mount Sharp Layered Sulfate Bedrock
May 04, 2026 (SPX)
The campaign was outlined by Sharon Wilson Purdy, a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in a mission update covering sols 4873...
Drone Radar Over Alaska and Wyoming Points Way to Buried Ice on Mars
May 04, 2026 (SPX)
The work, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, draws on field campaigns at debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming. The sites were c...
Curiosity And Perseverance Rovers Reveal Opposite Ends Of Mars Ancient Past
Apr 27, 2026 (SPX)
Curiosity's panorama , stitched from 1,031 images acquired between Nov. 9 and Dec. 7, 2025, surveys an expanse of boxwork formations - low ridges that resemble ...
Fungal Spores From NASA Cleanrooms Survive Simulated Mars and Space Travel Conditions
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
Researchers isolated fungal microbes from NASA cleanrooms, the controlled facilities used for the assembly, testing, and launch of spacecraft. These fungi had p...
Curiosity Rover Uncovers Diverse Organic Molecules on Mars in First-of-Its-Kind Chemical Test
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The findings come from a chemical experiment performed for the first time on another world, revealing that the Martian surface can preserve the kinds of molecul...
Rover discovers more building blocks of life on Mars
Apr 21, 2026 (AFP)
The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasised, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-lan...
Mars Express Captures Volcanic Ash Spreading Across Utopia Planitia Over Five Decades
Apr 17, 2026 (SPX)
A new image from Mars Express's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) shows a scene of two halves, with Mars's bright tan-coloured sands butting up against dark ...
Fungi tested as space building blocks for moon and Mars
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
The team aims to determine if specific fungi can grow on a mixture of planetary regolith and simulated human waste to create a solid composite. In this approach...
Solar storm supercharges Mars atmosphere and disrupts ESA orbiters
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
In May 2024, the largest solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth, driving the atmosphere into overdrive and producing vivid auroras visible as far sou...
'Water bears' reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
Co-led by Penn State Altoona Professor of Microbiology Corien Bakermans, an international research team recently found that tardigrade activity - a key indicato...
Perseverance rover now self-locates precisely on Mars
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
Until this upgrade, Perseverance depended on a combination of inertial measurements and visual odometry to track its movements, with operators on Earth periodic...
UAE extends Mars probe mission until 2028
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
The UAE's Hope probe arrived in orbit around Mars in 2021 after a seven-month voyage through space, making it the first Arab country to explore the Red Planet w...
Mars relay orbiter seen as backbone for future exploration
Feb 17, 2026 (SPX)
The company argues that without a capable relay network, Mars missions cannot deliver their full value. Past orbiters have mapped the Martian surface in detail ...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4798-4803: Back for More Science
Feb 17, 2026 (JPL)
As explained in the last blog, that deeper dive involves using the second of two vials of a chemical reagent, tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH), that helps m...
Mars' 'Young' Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought
Feb 13, 2026 (SPX)
New research published recently in Geology shows that this complexity also applies to Mars. Recent high-resolution morphological observations and mineral analys...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction
Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)
We checked out a broken white rock in the workspace with APXS, MAHLI, and ChemCam's laser spectrometer and finished up imaging a sandy area we've kept an eye on...
NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)
In March 2025, scientists reported identifying small amounts of decane, undecane, and dodecane in a rock sample analyzed in the chemistry lab aboard Curiosity. ...
Perseverance rover completes landmark AI guided trek across Jezero rim
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
The demonstration, run on Dec 8 and Dec 10, 2025, used generative AI to create waypoints for the six wheeled rover, taking over a complex decision making task t...
Martian toxin found to toughen microbe built bricks
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
The work builds on earlier studies in which the team used the soil bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii to turn synthetic Martian or lunar soil into solid "space br...
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