Slated to land on Mars this month, the Perseverance rover will search for signs of past life and test new technologies for supporting future human missions.
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NASA researchers on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of 1,284 new planets, including nine that could support life, nearly doubling the number of confirmed planets. Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA, said in a press release that the research on planets orbiting stars outside our solar system,...
[00:08.84]that grounded its Mars helicopter Ingenuity. [00:13.96]The finding comes after NASA said it had carried out [00:19.24]the "first aircraft accident investigation on another world." [00:25.84]Ingenuity arrived ...
The discovery of the compounds around IRAS 2A is particularly interesting because these protostars, a lot like the sun, would have 4.6 billion years ago in its infancy before the formation of the planets. That means the discovery of these icy compounds may help confirm that the vital ingredient...
Glover: "We need to celebrate this moment in human history. Because Artemis two is more than a mission to the moon and it's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars. ...
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THIS is the year of the Red Planet. Three robot spacecraft - two American, one Russian - are on track for autumn launches to begin a new era of intensified Mars exploration, studying everything from the soil and air to the weather.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...
Known as Mars Cube One, or MarCO, the briefcase-sized satellites "will fly on their own path to Mars behind InSight," and test tiny new deep space communications equipment, NASA said. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over100,000 subscriberswho rely on Phys.org for dai...
planet Earth and Mars have about the same amount of dry land surface. Both planets have seasons, are roughly in the same heat-range and have similar rotational patterns (they take approximately the same amount of time (about 24 hours) to make full rotations on their axis). Like Mars, Eart...