The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for fut...
traveled 293 million miles to reach Mars over the course of more than six months after launching on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Station on July 30. It will remain on Mars for nearly two years, searching for signs of ancient life and exploring the planet...
Past missions to Mars have confirmed that certain areas of the planet were capable of supporting life in the past, according toNASA. Evidence indicates parts of Mars were warm and wet about three billion years ago, which would be around the same time early life was developing ...
An ISS crewmember captured a picture of the space shuttle Endeavour as it neared docking in February 2010. It was Endeavour’s 10th flight to the ISS with the mission of delivering Tranquility (a berthing, life support, and exercise module) and Cupola (a robotics work station). Eruption on ...
While Opportunity has not found any signs of life, the presence of water means life is possiblE. "In everything we know about life on Earth, there is no example without liquid water," Squyres saiD. "So water is important for the search for life on Mars."Researchers agree that a ...
questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said ina NASA press releaseback in November 2018. "Getting samples from this unique area will revolutionize how we think about Mars and its a...
The NASA team has, according to their press release, "long planned to visit the delta" leading into the Jezero Crater due to the potential that it may contain fossils of ancient microbial life. The collected images have given the scientists information into where they can find the best rock ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface.
Organizers noted in a press release that a real-life asteroid is set to pass close to the Earth in 2029. This asteroid, called Apophis, is one of the most important NEOs ever discovered. NASA predicts Apophis will pass by Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, within 31,300 kilometers above...
Isn't it time to get the bureaucrats and their pet contractors out of humanity's way so that we can finally bring life to space, and space to life? (NASAWatch.COM: "Whoopee! Faster, better, cheaper [i.e. non-NASA] missions to Mars are having a less-than-stellar record thus far...