Above: Press members get an up-close look at the LDSD flight-test vehicle that will be tested on Kauai Island at NASA-JPL on March 31. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. How did NASA land a 2,000 pound, car-sized robotic rover on the surface of Mars? Part of their success lay...
Above: Artist rendering of a future Mars colony. Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg, Mars One. After receiving over 202,000 applications from candidates all over the world, the Netherlands-based Mars One nonprofit announced that it has narrowed down its selection to 100...
Image: A composite image showing Mars and comet Siding Spring passing one another on Sunday. Credit: NASA, ESA, PSI, JHU/APL, STScI/AURA. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captured a very rare occurrence last weekend (10/19/14) as comet ‘Siding Spring’ brushed past Mars – an...
Artist rendering of astronauts and a lunar rover equipped with a robotic drill searching for water deposits frozen beneath the lunar surface. Credit: NASA Inhabiting space is no easy endeavor. All the necessities for supporting life are far from reach. But the...
