Mars Rover
Artist's DIY Space Program Seeks Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon
Bricolage master Tom Sachs and his team operate a handmade aeronautics program to find new lifeforms, and sometimes grow poppies, in outer space
China Plans to Send this Bad Boy to Mars in 2020
The 2020s are shaping up to be a busy and diverse era in Martian surface exploration.
Carl Sagan’s Dream of a Martian Microphone May Finally Be Real
Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 SuperCam team will soon make the case for recording the sounds of the Red Planet.
The Curiosity Mars Rover Is Such a Narcissist
When your selfies look this good, who could blame you for being a little vain?
We Asked a Scientist Why People Keep Seeing Aliens in the Pictures from the Mars Rover
This phenomenon, in which the brain recognizes objects in a field of visual noise, is called pareidolia.
Watch This First High-Res Video of the Curiosity Mars Landing
Even as something of a Mars fever naysayer, I can say that the sight of dust billowing as the Curiosity lander touches down delivers an eerie, awed chill. The video above, coming courtesy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was just released today...
Bill Nye, Star Trek Barbershop Quartets and a Space Rave: What It Was Like to Celebrate Curiosity with NASA's MSL Team
_Motherboard's space correspondent Amy Teitel was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, over the weekend to hang out and party extraterrestrial-style with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team. The MSL group, of course, was waiting...
From Eight Months to Seven Minutes: NASA's Jim Adams on Mars' Curiosity
In less than 24 hours we'll know whether the Mars Curiosity Rover, the next in NASA's line of vehicles designed to probe one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors, plummeted to the Martian surface as it's been programmed to, or not. Jim Adams is...