Looking down on Mars we see Gale Crater as a crater among many craters, but even from this distant perspective Gale Crater is unique, special, and above all, intriguing. In the image below we can spot the 150km in diameter Gale...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.

Today's Image of Mars shows how the Tharsis Trio ( Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus Mons) pale in comparison to Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system. Of the Tharsis trio, Arsia Mons is the oldest and Ascraeus...

A Mars sample return mission would require three parts: a sample-collecting rover, a lander with a fetch rover to jet the rocks into space, and an orbiter to relay communications and bring the samples home. Credit: E2E-iSAG/S....

United Nations officials today highlighted the contribution of human space science and technology in achieving sustainable development, and called on countries to work together in this area to foster international partnerships and innovations.

Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 09, 2012 - Russia's participation in ExoMars program is approaching. A meeting of ESA and Roscosmos is scheduled for April, 6. The European landing mission to Mars may prove to be a salvation for...

As Star Trek reminds us, space is the final frontier.  But is it the "final frontier"' of earthbound conflict -- perhaps a power struggle between the United States and China? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spends a lot of...

Today's Image of Mars was taken by Mars Odyssey Orbiter's THEMIS and shows Galaxias Fossae, a 400km long fault cutting through Utopia Planitia. It is thought that Galaxias Fossae was created by lava that forced its way into a...

Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan...

Flattening at the back of their eyes may be caused by increased pressure of cerebrospinal fluid in...

Two ambitious missions that NASA had hoped to launch to Mars, in 2016 and 2018, will be canceled.

SpaceX success is critical to the future of the American space program and Brevard, and everyone in the industry should be cheering their every successful move.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2012 by redplanetalohastate IMAGINE THIS. You’re on a rocket headed for the red planet. You glance down at the speedometer and you’re cruising right along at about 17,000 miles per hour....

February 13th, La Jolla, CA: The Conference on Life Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples is the kind of meeting that science fiction nerds dream of, a chance to sit in a room and methodically plan the logistics of what would be one

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research and lifelong fascination with the planet Mars. Robinson's work has been labeled by

China may claim that its space program is civil and scientific in nature, but Ronald L. Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, issued a wakeup call about China's anti-satellite missiles and cyber warfare...

A group has warned that extraterrestrial clutter has reached a point where, if nothing was done, a cascade of collisions would eventually make low-Earth orbit unusable.

Russia's space agency Roskosmos intends to join the ExoMars European project aimed at sending two research missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018. It will make an official statement to this end early next month after talks with the...