Mars InSight to stretch its arm and look around as mole-mashing ops are paused
Tap-tap-tapping on lander's scoop
09 Jul 2020
Articles about Mars
Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour
Trundle bot must dodge sand dunes in quest to find evidence of life on Red Planet
09 Jul 2020
Born slippy: NASA Mars rover Perseverance to persevere on Earth a little longer as launch date pushed back again
A delay until 2022 looms as sensor problems on Atlas V add a few more days to schedule
01 Jul 2020
Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life
World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think
27 Jun 2020
NASA to send Perseverance, a new trundle bot, and Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, to sniff out life on Mars in July
Mars2020 mission will scout for interesting rocks to bring back to Earth
18 Jun 2020
Hooray, space boffins have finally got InSight lander's heat probe back into Martian ground again
The beloved mole hasn't been able to dig into the Red Planet's regolith for ages
05 Jun 2020
You're 3 billion years too late to see Mars' impressive ring system. The next one will be along in 40 million years or so
Astroboffins say Deimos's wonky orbit suggests slow-burning ring-moon cycle
02 Jun 2020
Briny liquid may be more common on Mars than once thought, unlikely to support life as we know it
Jeez, no need to be so salty
11 May 2020
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Light-powered nanocardboard robots dancing in the Martian sky searching for alien life
'We’re proposing an entirely different approach' lead prof tells The Reg
23 Apr 2020
NASA dons red and blue cardboard 3D glasses to drive Curiosity rover because its GPUs are stuck in the office
Can: Send rover to Mars and operate it from home. Can't: Remote in to mission PCs or replicate them in the cloud
15 Apr 2020
NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet
The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch
06 Apr 2020
Planning a trip to space to escape COVID-19? Tough. Arianespace shuts up shop while SpaceX sputters
RoundupAlso: China has a launch failure but hey, things on Mars might be looking up
17 Mar 2020
Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma
Red Planet's sporadic E layers shed light on our world's interference
04 Feb 2020
Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
Destined to die a lonely Martian death? How about Doomed Buggy?
22 Jan 2020
OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu
Let's grab a nice cold drink on the Red Planet. Don't forget to pack a shovel
12 Dec 2019
Found on Mars: Alien insects... or whatever the hell this smudge is supposed to be, anyway
PicsWings, heads, Big Foot – or just rocks. You decide
22 Nov 2019
Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen in Martian summers
It might be organic life, but more likely chemistry says NASA
13 Nov 2019
Dammit Insight! You just had two big jobs to do on Mars and you're failing at one of those
The self-hammering heat probe suddenly popped out from the ground over the weekend
29 Oct 2019
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