Feb 18 NASA’s Perseverance rover pulls off tricky landing on Mars By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet. Continue reading
Feb 17 5 things you should know about the Mars 2020 mission By Miles O'Brien Perseverance is expected to land on the Red Planet Thursday after a seven-month journey. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien previews the nailbiter landing, what scientists are hoping to learn, and the innovations on board. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 6:43 NASA sets ambitious goals for latest mission to Mars By Miles O'Brien If all goes according to plan, the United States will land its most advanced rover ever on Mars on Thursday, nearly 300-million miles from where it lifted off last year. It is a daunting task, one that will set up… Continue watching
Feb 07 Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars. The stakes — and anxiety — are sky high. Continue reading
Dec 02 China’s space ambitions include a robot on Mars and a human on the moon By Joe McDonald, Victoria Milko, Associated Press China’s landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is planning to put humans back on… Continue reading
Nov 10 Report says NASA needs more time, money than planned to bring back Mars rocks By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press An independent panel says NASA is underestimating the amount of time and money it will take to bring Mars rocks back to Earth in the coming decade. Continue reading
Jul 24 U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants for moon and Mars By Keith Ridler, Associated Press The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch 7:01 News Wrap: Senate GOP says it has tentative deal on pandemic aid bill In our news wrap Thursday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. top 4 million, another 1.4 million Americans have filed for unemployment. But Senate Republicans say they have a tentative agreement with the White House for a new aid… Continue watching
Jul 23 China launches ambitious attempt to land rover on Mars By Samuel McNeil, Aniruddha Ghosal, Associated Press China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet. Continue reading
Jul 13 U.S., China, U.A.E to send fleet of spacecrafts to Mars By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Mars is about to be invaded by planet Earth — big time. The U.S., China and the United Arab Emirates are sending spacecraft to Mars in quick succession beginning this week. Continue reading