NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...
What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN ...
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Mars-orbit cameras track a visitor from another star system, up close
The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...
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Meet Kathryn Lawson: Radiochemist whose work helps power deep space exploration
For decades, humanity has sent robotic explorers far beyond Earth’s comfort zone—into places where sunlight is weak, nights ...
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After a month of no answer, NASA will try hailing its silent MAVEN Mars orbiter today
MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.
Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...
A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.
A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.
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