Tag: Mars
India to launch maiden mission to Mars on 5th
Indian media reported on Saturday that the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) launch authorization board has cleared the launch of India's maiden mission to...
Where’d Mars’ oceans go?
A mission that will scan Mars' atmosphere to better understand what happened to its water will be launched by Nasa next month.
The space agency...
India to launch Mars Orbiter Mission on 28th
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will go ahead as scheduled on October 28, according to Indian...
So we’re the aliens? Scientists say life began on Mars!
It might not just be men who are from Mars, claims a new study which suggests that all life on Earth actually began on...
PTI’s by-poll hostility mars PA session
The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Monday witnessed commotion over Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s protest against the alleged by-poll rigging in PP-150, the police torture and...
Anchors away! One-way trip to Mars planned for 2023
Come 2023, and four people will blast off on a 200-day journey to Mars to establish a human colony on that planet. The author...
UK team designs human mission to Mars
Scientists at Imperial College London have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars. The plan envisages a three-person crew journeying to Mars...
Once blue, now red? Mars contained more oxygen than Earth
The atmosphere on Mars was once thicker, warmer and wetter than it is today until it was damaged in a 'catastrophic collision' with a...
Volunteers wanted for one-way ticket to Mars
Mars One, a Dutch company, has begun its search for volunteers to fly and live on the red planet - but it’s a one-way...
Private Mars mission in 2018?
Yes, you read that correctly. An entrepreneur wants to charter a SpaceX rocket to launch two interplanetary buddies on the ultimate joyride: A mission...
In milestone, Mars rover collects first bedrock sample
In a first, the Mars rover Curiosity has penetrated a rock on the Red Planet and collected a sample from its interior, the US...
Water flow on Mars suggests ancient life on planet
Narrow ridges found in Martian craters may actually be fossilised remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed on the red planet, a...
River ran across Mars: Astronomers
The new Mars Express images show a region of Reull Vallis at a point where the channel is almost 7 km wide and 300...
NASA celebrates stunning discoveries made by Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity
Nine years ago today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory began their missions to Mars. On January 3rd, 2004 NASA’s first Mars rover, which was named...
NASA plans new Mars rover for 2020
NASA officials plan to build a new rover that would follow Curiosity on the surface of Mars. The announcement electrified many of the roughly...
Undisclosed finding by Mars rover fuels intrigue
The Mars rover Curiosity has found something — something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it? The scientists working on...
Mars methane mystery: Curiosity sniffing for life on the Red Planet
On Earth, we take methane for granted. It's produced by living creatures - such as cattle's digestive systems and bacteria munching through our refuse...
