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Self-portrait of Curiosity in Gale Crater on Mars. Photo Credit: NASA/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images It seems that Mars is belching methane again. NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected a new burst of the gas, it was reported today in the New York Times. The new detection of the gas – which can come from either biology […] 
NASA’s InSight mission to Mars is now being targeted for a May 2018 launch. Image has been cropped for publication. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In December, those following the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission, planned to launch on a trek to Mars this month aboard a ULA Atlas-V […] Image from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing deposits of impact glass (green) in Alga Crater. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/Univ. of Arizona For the first time, impact glass has been detected on the surface of Mars; the discovery not only provides new information about the […] Mars shows plenty of evidence for flowing water on its surface, as in the case of these channels in Newton Crater. Does this mean that the Red Planet ever supported life? Photo Credit: NASA On July 20, 1976, a 572-kilogram spacecraft, supported on three sturdy legs, touched down on the orange sands of […] Russia’s involvement with the International Space Station—as evidenced by this remarkable shot of Soyuz TMA-07M, flying high above the Sahara during rendezvous operations on 21 December—is expected to continue throughout the next decade. Photo Credit: NASA Russia is expected to spend 2.1 trillion rubles—about $70 billion—on the development of its national space industry […] Curiosity’s tracks on Mars. Something we might should see more of on a different part of the planet within the next ten years. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL It seems Curiosity is doing great things both on Mars and on Earth. Just four months into a two-year primary mission, President Obama is seeking to capitalize […] The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, has agreed to pick up where NASA left off in terms of the agreement that the U.S. space agency had with the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission. Image Credit: ESA Abandoned by NASA, the European Space Agency has begun working with the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, […] 
President Obama addressing NASA employees, journalists, and others involved in the spaceflight community at Kennedy Space Center. Despite campaign promises in support of America's space program, Obama and the White House have proposed a 20 percent cut to NASA's Planetary Science Program – a move that would surely put an end to the […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 7 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 4 Jun 20 at 1:25 GMT 3 Jun 20 at 9:25pm Eastern 
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