Topic: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Its solar panels are dusty and its instruments are weakening, but the intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is still undaunted. Today marks the rover's...

Eight Years of Opportunity

Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on...
sighted writes "This week's huge solar storm will benefit future astronauts, thanks to the rover Curiosity, now on its way to Mars. The rover is...
The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the...

Sunspot unleashes a parting shot

NASA via SpaceWeather.com. . NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a picture of sunspot 1402 unleashing an X2-class solar flare on Friday...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts on a mission to Mars will need much more than freeze-dried ice cream to sustain them, and researchers at Cornell are...

Mars Rover Aims for August Landing

A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward Mars prepared to fire its thrusters Wednesday to put itself on course for an August landing. . Engineers closely...

Mars Rocks Fell in Africa Last July

Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. . This is only...

Russia Plans Moon, Mars Missions

Russia in planning new exploration missions to the moon and Mars, despite the recent spectacular crash of a probe that was to have traveled to the ...

NASA Releases Amazing New Pictures Of Mars

NASA on Wednesday added four spectacular images to its 20,500-photo database of high-resolution images of Mars. . . These new images were taken in...