Smooth launch for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover
The rover was launched successfully July 30, 2020. Its mission is to search for signs of past microbial life and collect rock and dust samples …
UAE’s Hope orbiter is on way to the Red Planet
The aim of the mission is to understand weather on Mars through all seasons and study how atmospheric oxygen and hydrogen escape into space
Martian surprise: NASA’s Perseverance finds igneous rocks altered by water
Study adds to the evidence that Mars transformed from wet to a dry planet
In search of ancient life: NASA Perseverance lands on Mars
The rover will now begin its two-year-long investigation to assess the geology and past climate of the Red planet
Lake found on Mars by scientists
The underground lake is about 20 kms wide and is on Mars’ southern ice cap
Life beyond Earth? NASA’s Perseverance rover finds diverse organic matter on Mars
A high possibility for past habitability exists at the rover’s landing site in Jezero Crater
Mars’ imbalanced energy budget can be fuelling dust storms. What this says about climate change on Earth
Mars also experienced global warming and climate change
MOM gears up for orbit insertion
Artemis: How ever changing US space policy may push back the next Moon landing
A delay of any more than a year would move Artemis 3 beyond the end of President Biden’s first term in office
Scientists uncover sheets of ice buried at Mars’ north pole
Composition of these layers could further shed light on the history of Mars and if it ever had favourable conditions to support life
Major floods on Mars? China’s rover finds evidence
Zhurong rover's first radar imager results analysed two interesting underground layers
NASA finds evidence of water on Mars
If water exists now, life too could be found on the planet
Spirit and Opportunity: Celebrating 10 years on Mars
‘It will open up a new area of Mars exploration’
As NASA's Ingenuity touched down on Mars, Down To Earth spoke to Ingenuity’s chief engineer J (Bob) Balaram on the significance of the …
Meet Mars: NASA rover is on the Red Planet
The Perseverance Rover landed on the Jezero Crater February 18, 2021 to look for ancient microscopic life. Dozens of high-resolution images were …
New study finds Mars’ core less dense that Earth’s. How it impacts the Red Planet
Unlike Earth's core, Mars' innermost layer cannot generate magnetic field
Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft at ISAC
Video courtesy ISRO
Mars may have been less oxygen-rich than previously assumed
But there’s still a possibility of life on the Red Planet, finds study
ExoMars mission delayed, rover will now take off in 2022
European Space Agency cited software problems with the spacecraft as a reason for the delay
How the ExoMars mission could sniff out life on Mars – and what to do next
If we do find life on Mars, it will be difficult to prove that we didn't bring it there from Earth. An insider talks us through what's at stake
Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth – Perseverance Rover lands on Feb. 18, a lead scientist explains the tech and goals
Scientists are looking for evidence of past life, either direct chemical or organic signs in the composition and the chemistry of rocks, or …
NASA's Insight mission lands on Mars
After a 300-million-mile journey from Earth over nearly seven months, NASA's InSight spacecraft landed successfully on the surface of Mars on Monday.
Is the Opportunity lost forever?
Over a decade after NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars, it is feared ‘dead’ after a historic dust storm swept the planet
Curiosity's Mars odyssey
From Neptune's blue hue to Jupiter's red spot: are the colours of the planets real?
Many images of planets have been manipulated. So have we seen their true colours? Not always, it turns out.