mars

An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars, with its "mole" burrowed deep in the soil. ​​NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has given up on its InSight lander's "Mars mole" after two years of...

One of the mission experiments aboard the InSight Lander that scientists worked to deploy on Mars was the heat probe known as the “mole” developed by the German Aerospace Center. The heat probe has been unable to...

Enlarge / A selfie taken by the InSight Lander. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of...

NASA has been forced to end its mission to drill down into the Martian soil after its unique geology proved too much for the InSight lander. The InSight probe was equipped with a probe -- dubbed the Mole -- which was...

The InSight lander's heat probe, or "mole," poking out of the hole where it got stuck on October 26, 2019. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is giving up on its Mars mole — a pile driver designed to hammer its way...

On February 18, a little over a month from now, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on the Red Planet, bringing with it new tools and technologies for additional exploration. Among the items carried by the rover is a...

NASA builds its hardware to last. Missions like Curiosity, Hubble, and New Horizons have survived long past their initial design life. This allows NASA to wring out every bit of science from its most successful...

You can now rip and tear your way through Doom 3 in VR if you fancy it. The old PC game has been rejigged for the wireless VR headset Oculus Quest 1 and 2 by prolific modder DrBeef. Doom has always excelled in...

Anyone who’s ever visited the Grand Canyon in the United States knows how massive it is. The Grand Canyon certainly lives up to its name, but it’s got nothing on a canyon on the surface of Mars. NASA has released...

This concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer and easier to explore for humans. NASA One of the biggest limitations...

NASA has announced that it is extending the missions for a pair of spacecraft after an external review of their scientific productivity. The missions are Juno and InSight, both of which have increased the understanding...

For the last few years, Jeff Bezos has been the richest person in the world — even after losing a large chunk of his fortune in a divorce. That changed this week when a Tesla stock surge made Elon Musk the...

Pit Stop Scientists are working on a portable system that could help astronauts on Mars fuel up for their return trip using the atmosphere around them. Using atmospheric carbon dioxide and water from ice on and beneath...

Landing boots on Mars is one thing, but once astronauts have left those boot prints behind, how will they power the spaceship that brings them back to Earth? How to get the fuel to make the return journey is a major...

Mars is many things. It's cold. It's dry. It's spectacular. It's also weird. Very, very weird. At its south pole are a series of layered deposits, a huge region where nearly pure water ice mixed with dust and sand was...

Mars is many things. It's cold. It's dry. It's spectacular. It's also weird. Very, very weird. At its south pole are a series of layered deposits, a huge region where nearly pure water ice mixed with dust and sand was...