Researchers to send seeds to Mars
A team of young researchers will send seeds to Mars in 2018 to grow the first plant on the Red planet. The Seed team has won a contest on the best designs for experiments on Mars organised by Dutch...
View ArticleNASA Microsoft to help scientists in virtual exploration of Mars
The US space agency has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually using a wearable technology called Microsoft HoloLens. Developed by...
View ArticleNASA s Curiosity Rover Looks Like A Tiny Pimple On Mars Surface
Do you see it? That incredibly tiny dot in the center of that blue perimeter. That is NASA’s $2.5 billion rover, steadily working away and analyzing the Martian soil. This image was captured on Dec....
View ArticleBritons shortlisted for Mars trip
Five Britons have been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars as they hope to become the first humans to step foot on the Red Planet. Four women and a man from the UK are among the final 100...
View ArticleMars hills may be hiding several hundred million yr old glaciers
A new research has revealed that a complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars may be hiding large quantities of water-ice. Phlegra Montes stretches from the...
View ArticleCelestial treat Catch Mars snuggle with Venus this month
Avid sky watchers are in for a celestial treat to catch Venus and Mars paired together in a bunch starting from February 20th till the end of the month. Skygazers can look in west-southwest during and...
View ArticleNASA s Curiosity rover halts work on Mars after short circuit
The US space agency, NASA, on Tuesday said that the Curiosity rover has temporarily halted work on Mars while engineers analyse a transient short circuit. “Telemetry received from the rover indicated...
View ArticleMars had ocean with more water than Arctic
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean but the Red Planet lost 87 per cent of that water to space, a new study has found. The ocean covered a greater portion of the...
View ArticleNew software can help you detect possible asteroid threats
A new software created by a NASA challenge, which has now been made public, can help amateur astronomers to detect possible asteroid threats in future. Analysis of images taken of our solar system’s...
View ArticleScientists develop new technique to detect alien life on Mars
Even as debate over life on Mars continues, scientists have now come up with a new technique to find traces of alien life on the Red Planet. Unmanned probes to Mars by NASA and European Space Agency...
View ArticleAstronomers measure first Mars sized exoplanet
Scientists have measured the mass and size named of the first exoplanet smaller than the Earth named Kepler-138b. The Mars-sized planet has been orbiting a red dwarf star about 200 light years from...
View ArticleNASA to explore safe landing sites on Mars
In its bid for the next giant leap to Mars, NASA is seeking ideas for enabling human explorers to safely land, live and work on the Red Planet. NASA’s first “Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for...
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