Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Curtin University is helping unlock the secrets of life on Mars and advance next-generation robotics and autonomous systems, with two new international agreements signed this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney. Curtin signed a Statement of Strategic Intent to formalise the LifeSpringsMars Working Group, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India-based techno| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured the most detailed view yet of Mars's atmosphere, showing a fine layering of dust and ice particles that resembles a cosmic mille-feuille. The images reveal a delicate stratification extending from the surface up to 55 km in altitude, shedding light on processes shaping the Red Planet's restless skies. The data were obtained on January 21, 2024,| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Amherst MA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric hydroxysulfate, the mineral provides clues about the Martian environment and history of the planet, including the possibility of former lava, ash or hydrothermal activity. Mars gets its trademark red hue from the abundanc| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 With repeated strikes of a 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) sledgehammer, a team of NASA-supported researchers has demonstrated a low-tech but powerful method to locate caves that may one day provide shelter for astronauts on the Moon and Mars. The experiments, conducted near Flagstaff, Arizona, and Tulelake, California, used terrain with geologic features similar to those of planetary lava fields.| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2025 NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall. NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesday after NASA halted its initial attempted launch last year, the U.S. space agency announced Monday.| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 A rare look inside the wintry north polar vortex of Mars has revealed that conditions are far colder than outside its boundary, and that the months of complete darkness allow ozone to accumulate in the martian atmosphere. "The atmosphere inside the polar vortex, from near the surface to about 30 kilometres high, is characterised by extreme cold temperatures, about 40 degrees Celsius colder| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 - New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported l| Mars Daily
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2025 - Recent tests suggest that swarms of spherical tumbleweed rovers could offer an affordable and efficient way to explore Mars. Experiments conducted in a wind tunnel and on natural terrain show that t| Mars Daily
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025 While the ancient Martian climate is still debated, new research indicates that volcanic emissions of sulfur gases could have created a warmer atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The study, published in Science Advances, was led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin. Analyzing Martian meteorite data, the team ran over 40 simulations testing how carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2025 Planetary scientists report progress in predicting when the Martian night sky will glow with green aurora, building on new visible-light images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rover first recorded a ground-level aurora in 2024. Now, at the Europlanet Science Congress - Division of Planetary Science meeting in Helsinki, Dr Elise Wright Knutsen of the University of Oslo has shared| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2025 Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS2025) Press Release - The Rosalind Franklin rover's search for ancient life on Mars could be aided by natural processes that deliver organic-rich material directly to its landing zone, according to two new studies presented this week in Helsinki. Scheduled for la| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered evidence of long-ago chemical processes while exploring Jezero Crater, giving scientists fresh insight into how minerals, water, and possibly organics interacted billions of years ago. A new Nature News and Views article by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop and University of Massachusetts Professor Mario Parente highlights these discov| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
London, UK (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals and organic matter in Martian rocks that point to an ancient history of habitable conditions and potential biological processes on the Red Planet.| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
College Station TX (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 A new study co-authored by Texas A and M University geologist Dr. Michael Tice has revealed potential chemical signatures of ancient Martian microbial life in rocks examined by NASA's Perseverance rover. The findings, published by a large international team of scientists, focus on a region of Jezero Crater known as the Bright Angel formation - a name chosen from locations in Grand Canyon N| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2025 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter.| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2025 - Last week, the Perseverance rover began an exciting new journey. Driving northwest of the Soroya ridge, Perseverance entered an area filled with a diverse range of boulders that the science team bel| Mars Daily
London UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - A PhD student and his supervisor have developed a simple way for testing for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on t| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2025 - Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a mini-campaign on aeolian bedforms. After wrapping up that work, three separate| Mars Daily
London, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 - New seismic evidence suggests that Mars's interior is far from the smooth textbook image often imagined. Instead, the planet's mantle is littered with ancient fragments, some up to 4 km wide, formed| Mars Daily
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 - Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments on its Starship megarocket during planned future missions to Mars, according to a new deal announced on Thursday.| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2025 - Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask| Mars Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 - New research led by the SETI Institute has identified an unusual iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a previously unknown mineral, offering new insights into the planet's thermal and geochemical| Mars Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 14, 2025 - In a major breakthrough, scientists from Chengdu University of Technology have analyzed a newly discovered Martian meteorite that could help explain how volcanoes once shaped Mars. The meteorite, na| Mars Daily
London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - A new study by researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi reveals that cosmic rays - high-energy particles from space - could generate enough energy to support microbial life beneath the surfaces of planets and m| Mars Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 - Curiosity has made significant progress in its ongoing exploration of the intricate boxwork terrain along the slopes of Mount Sharp. The past several sols have brought the rover from the base of a s| Mars Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 14, 2025 - A team of Chinese geologists has developed a high-fidelity Mars soil simulant, designated UPRS-1, that closely replicates the regolith of Utopia Planitia. This advancement is expected to aid upcomin| Mars Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2025 - Mars may once have flowed with rivers and lakes, but a new study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite suggests its warm periods were fleeting and ultimately doomed by a self-r| Mars Daily
Paris (AFP) July 2, 2025 - Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?| Mars Daily
