Mars Mission’s Budget Problems Force NASA Layoffs
February 7, 2024 3 min read NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eliminating nearly 600 workers due to funding shortfalls for…
NASA’s Troubled Mars Sample Mission Has Scientists Seeing Red
NASA is seemingly caught between a Mars rock and a hard place. The space agency’s best-laid plan to robotically retrieve…
The Mars Sample Return Mission Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
December 14, 2023 5 min read Mars Sample Return has always been an expensive, high-risk, high-reward project. But now, with…
‘Monster Quake’ Hints at Mysterious Source within Mars
Bone-dry, bitterly cold and bathed in cosmic radiation, the surface of Mars may well be dead, with not so much…
Mars Sample-Return Missions Could Reduce Tensions with China on Earth
In September NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) independent review board (IRB), led by the agency’s former “Mars czar” Orlando Figueroa,…
Bringing Mars Rocks to Earth Could Cost an Astronomical $11 Billion
Humanity’s biggest and most ambitious plan to search for extraterrestrial life is about to go back to the drawing board.…
NASA Mars rover spies 200-foot-wide dust devil moving across red planet’s surface
A new compilation of images from NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover appears to show a dust devil twister dancing across the…
Red Planet breakthrough: NASA generates enough oxygen on Mars to keep small dog alive for 10 hours
NASA says it has generated enough oxygen to keep a small dog alive on Mars for at least 10 hours,…
Alien craft could have caused ‘most bizarre rock’ on Mars, scientists claim
Scientists have reportedly not ruled out an extraterrestrial spacecraft to explain geographical anomalies recently discovered on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity Rover…