NASA Hosts Meeting To Consider Ideal Place For Humans To Land On Mars
NASA is hosting a meeting of scientists to identify the ideal place on the Red Planet to put boots on the ground.
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NASA is hosting a meeting of scientists to identify the ideal place on the Red Planet to put boots on the ground.
Mystery solved. There is liquid water on the Mars. Scientists reported Monday they found definitive signs of water on the Red Planet, essential for life, and speculate the planet could sustain life even now.
In a dramatic posting on its website, NASA officials say they will reveal that an important Mars "mystery" has been solved at a Washington D.C. press conference on Monday.
Whenever the Mars Curiosity Rover beams back images of the Red Planet to Earth, the Internet blows up with countless theories to explain the mysterious shadows and shapes we perceive.
NASA researchers have found deposits of glass on Mars that may have preserved evidence about past life on the red planet.
We're closer than ever to finding out whether we're alone in the universe or not, NASA's top scientist said Tuesday.
NASA revealed its plans Wednesday to fly robotic spacecraft to asteroids by the end of the decade.
A Bay Area woman is a step closer to winning a trip to the red planet. The catch is that it's only one-way. Kenya Armbrister of Oakland is one of 100 finalists who could leave Earth forever in 2024.
Several Bay Area residents and natives are among 100 people selected worldwide to begin training for a planned mission to colonize Mars in 2024.
Mars is about to dodge a big snowball — a comet that will swing just 82,000 miles above the planet's surface on Sunday. That's just a third of the distance between Earth and the Moon, so it's quite a close call.
NASA is inviting the public to add names to a microchip that will fly beyond Earth's orbit and eventually to Mars or beyond, after first taking a test flight.
For the first time in 17 years, NASA Ames Research Center will open its normally well-secured gates to the public, allowing behind the scenes tours of the wind tunnels, laboratories, and even a simulated Martian landscape.
Officials say initial phase of the heavy-lift rocket project, known as the Space Launch System Program, will now move from formulation to development, something no other exploration class vehicle has done since the creation of the space shuttle. The first generation rocket will be the most powerful ever built, with 130 metric tons of lift, enough to carry an Orion spacecraft beyond low earth orbit.
Space pioneer and Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. is looking toward the next giant leap, a manned mission to the planet Mars.
45 years ago, America landed a man on the moon, and years from now, NASA and Tesla founder Elon Musk hope to have already landed a man on Mars, using Musk's SpaceX rocket in a public-private partnership that turns the Apollo program model on its head.
A bright star and a brighter planet are staging a beautiful encounter in the evening sky. They're quite close together tonight, and will pass even closer over the next few nights.
A saucer-shaped NASA vehicle testing new technology for Mars landings has made a successful rocket ride over the Pacific but its massive descent parachute only partially unfurled.
Transcript of a discussion with Mars rover scientist who reveals that Curiosity's latest mission has been slowed by suprisingly rough terrain.
Folks in Hawaii should see a flying saucer in the skies above Kauai Thursday morning. It's a NASA project meant to eventually help land heavy objects on Mars. Up until now parachutes have been used.
Most of the stars that you see in the night sky aren't alone — they consist of two stars or more. They're so far away, though, that their light merges into a single pinpoint.
Four of the five planets that are easily visible to the unaided eye arc across the sky shortly after sunset the next few evenings. One of the planets sinks from sight quickly, but the other three stick around for a while.
The flying saucer shapes of science fiction could actually prove to be the most efficient way to enter an extraterrestrial planet's atmosphere, and on June 2nd, NASA plans to test that exact shape in a supersonic flight high over the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai.
Two hundred thousand people have signed up for an unlikely trip, including some people from the Bay Area. They all want to volunteer for a trip to Mars.
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Data being sent back by the Curiosity rover on Mars shows there was likely water on the red planet for thousands, if not millions of years.
