NASA needs volunteers to spend a year locked inside a moon and Mars simulator — here's how to apply and what it might pay

NASA is officially calling for research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission set to start in ...
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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission ...

Discovery on Mars: NASA detects possible signs of microbial life

New findings from rocks inside Jezero Crater add to growing evidence that the Red Planet may once have been habitable.

NASA’s rover found more evidence Mars may have sustained life

NASA’s Mars rover just found more evidence the planet may have sustained life - The stones were found in the same location ...
Scientific American

Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mars Rover Spots Complex Carbon on the Red Planet, Marking Yet Another Detection of a Building Block of Life

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...

Here's How Many Rovers NASA's Landed On Mars (And How Many Are Still Active)

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.

NASA's Mars MAVEN probe is dead

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...

Mars will not be habitable anytime soon: Here is what a new Nasa study says it would actually take

The dream of humans living on Mars has existed for decades, and in recent years it has moved closer to serious scientific and ...

NASA declares end of mission for long-lasting Mars orbiter

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.
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A Vital NASA Mars Orbiter Has Gone Dark

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA has lost the signal from a Martian probe that also serves ...
University of California

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...