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NASA Formally Retires InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Mars

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of… Read More

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest… Read More

ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Completes Eight Years in Orbit: Details

India's Mars orbiter craft has completed eight years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months.… Read More

Mars has dark green landscape too, discovers NASA rover | Digit

New York, Aug 26 (IANS) Not just red rocks and craters we saw in the popular science fiction film 'The… Read More

Elon Musk envisions a self-sustaining city on Mars in 20 years | Digit

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that he hopes for a self-sustaining city on the Red Planet… Read More

Data From Black Beauty Martian Meteorite May Shed Light on Mars’ History

Back in 2011, a Martian meteorite called Northwest Africa 7034 was found in the Sahara Desert. Dubbed Black Beauty, the… Read More

ESA’s MARSIS to Get Major Software Upgrade 19 Years After Its Launch

The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft… Read More

ESA, Partners Looks for Possible Option to Launch Mars Rover Mission

Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as… Read More

Sand Dunes Might Provide Insight on Weather Conditions on Planets: Study

What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on… Read More

NASA’s InSight Detects Biggest Ever Quake on Mars

A quake of magnitude 5 shook the surface of Mars on May 4, as per a seismometer placed by NASA's… Read More