Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 11:55am
One of the spacecraft orbiting Mars has snapped some pictures of what could be the entrances to huge caves. You may be looking at the future site of our first Mars colony.
MARS stories
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 6:00am
If you think Mount Everest is something to write home about, take a look at Olympus Mons. Standing at an incredible 27 miles high, this ancient Martian volcano is three times the size of Everest, making it the tallest mountain in our solar system — by a lot.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 2:45pm
The next photos we get of the surface of Mars will be taken by this camera, NASA's most advanced.
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 3:05pm
The genius lads and ladies over at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been so kind as to set up a webcam in their state-of-the-art clean room, the very same one where they're assembling the Curiosity Mars rover. Tonight? They're working...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:46pm
Put away the mothballs! President Obama has signed the bi-partisan NASA reauthorization bill into law, charting a new direction for the space agency over the next few years. In addition to setting long-term goals for human exploration of both Mars and asteriods, the new plan extends the life of the Space Shuttle by at least one flight.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 1:41pm
Exploring distant worlds is a slow, tricky business. Right now, rovers and landers are our best bet, but both suffer from the same shortfall: low mobility. A new class of exploratory craft that hops could accomplish in a few days what it's taken rovers years.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 3:37am
For years we've designed structures that would allow us to live on either the Moon or Mars. Would they be inflatable? Would they be domes? Apparently, they wouldn't be either — a network of caves could exist on both celestial bodies that would allow us to move in.
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 8:16am
James Cameron got plenty of experience creating an alien world in Avatar. Now the 3D pioneer is looking to test his might with the real deal, Mars, though still in three dimensions. Cameron met with NASA administrator Charles Bolden to...
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 2:14pm
One of the biggest mysteries that humanity has yet to solve is that of life on other planets. And now we don't even have to send William Shatner to explore the question for us! This chip, developed by Harvard Professor...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 8:29am
No, it's not the next big reality TV show (though it sounds like it could be): six researchers are going to spend a whopping 520 days inside Mars500, a Russian-built, facility-sized simulator that approximates the enormous effort a trip to...
