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First crewed round-trip to Mars possible by 2030, says NASA's Bridenstine

NASA will use advanced propulsion systems to enable a faster journey to the Red Planet while limiting radiation exposure for its astronauts

UAE's Hope Probe on course to Mars after successful launch from Japan

The craft is expected to reach Mars in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates 50th year of its formation

Getting closer to the neighbour

Perseverance remains crucial in exploring the mysteries around Mars

Curiosity resumes Martian mountain climb as Nasa team runs rover from home

Amid coronavirus pandemic, scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are executing commands from their living rooms to run a rover over 116 million km away, on Mars

NASA selects Kathy Lunders as new head of human spaceflight mission

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency's next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations

Moon, Mars Mission: Here's how you can participate in 8-month Nasa program

Are you in social isolation? Why not be paid for it. Nasa is in search for participants for an eight-month study on social isolation in preparation for its missions to Mars and the moon

Space exploration and calamities

The COVID-19 pandemic will upset the timelines of Nasa's next manned missions to the Moon

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare for human missions: NASA

The rover has been constructed in a large, sterile room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, where its driving equipment was given its first successful test last week

NASA selects 8 research teams to study Mars, Moon through robots, humans

The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will support the new teams for five years at a combined total of about $10.5 million per year

See pics: NASA Mars rover captures images of ancient valley carved by water

It may have been carved by flowing water, or a debris flow in which a small amount of water

Mars 2020 mission: Nasa rover to use X-ray techniques to find signs of life

Mars 2020 takes the next natural step in its direct search for evidence of ancient microbial life

Nasa's golf-cart-sized Opportunity Rover feared dead as storm engulfed Mars

The six-wheeler rover landed in a region of Mars called Meridiani Planum on January 24, 2004, sending its first signal back to Earth from the surface of the Red Planet

Nasa's curiosity rover finds diverse minerals in Martian rocks

Orbital infrared spectroscopy shows that mountain's lowermost layers have variations in minerals

Nasa test launches supersonic parachute for future Mars missions

The test was meant to mimic the conditions that a spacecraft would experience during a red planet entry, descent and landing

Mars Curiosity rover tastes sample of Martian 'Clay-Bearing Unit': NASA

The rover's drill chewed easily through the rock, unlike some of the tougher targets it faced nearby on Vera Rubin Ridge

Nasa wants to send a mini-helicopter to explore secrets of the Red Planet

Flying on the red planet is not easy. The thin air at the surface of Mars is the equivalent of being 100,000 feet above Earth

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft beams back selfie to mark its 4 years in orbit

The selfie was made from 21 different images, obtained with the IUVS in different orientations, that have been stitched together, NASA said

Growing up in Space Age: We need a moonshot of the first footstep on Mars

Moonshot is necessary not because more flags need to be planted and more footsteps left behind on a distant world, but because of the need to inspire present and future generations

NASA's Curiosity rover finds highest amounts of clay minerals on Mars

This clay-enriched region, located on the side of lower Mount Sharp, stood out to NASA orbiters before Curiosity landed in 2012

Nasa's Mars InSight spacecraft to explore mysterious history of red planet

Mars is smaller and geologically less active than its neighbour Earth