https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. India has lost contact with its Mars orbiter, eight years after the low-cost probe made it the first Asian nation with a spacecraft circling the red planet, its space agency said. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-india-contact-mars-orbiter-years.html Space Exploration Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:39:18 EDT news584077155 A pair of researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has published a perspective piece in the journal Science outlining the efforts being conducted this decade to find out if Mars once hosted life. In their article, Ryuki Hyodo and Tomohiro Usui outline the three main efforts that are involved in looking for evidence of life on Mars over the next ten years, and explain why they and others at JAXA believe the best chance of finding evidence of life on Mars lies on one or both of its moons. https://phys.org/news/2021-08-life-mars-moons.html Space Exploration Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:00:06 EDT news548328738 The UAE's "Hope" probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said Sunday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit. https://phys.org/news/2021-02-arab-emirates-publishes-photo-mars.html Space Exploration Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:20:45 EST news532542035 A combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler wobble. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group describes their study of decades of data from Mars probes and what it showed them. https://phys.org/news/2021-01-mars-chandler.html Space Exploration Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:50:02 EST news529591598 The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-uae-mars-probe-weather.html Space Exploration Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:00:38 EDT news514018831 The European Space Agency said Tuesday that it is putting eight of its spacecraft into hibernation as it scales down operations during the coronavirus outbreak. https://phys.org/news/2020-03-european-spacecraft-hibernation-virus-lockdown.html Space Exploration Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:08:12 EDT news504288487 Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-moon-station-years.html Space Exploration Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:06:09 EDT news475308356 Scientists said Tuesday they might have detected the first known seismic tremor on Mars in a discovery that could shed light on the ancient origins of Earth's neighbour. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-marsquake-tremor-red-planet.html Space Exploration Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:31:39 EDT news475241488 NASA's Mars InSight mission has hit a snag: Its heat probe appears to have struck an obstacle just below the surface of the red planet. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-key-instrument-nasa-insight-lander.html Space Exploration Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:06:02 EST news471085548 For some time, scientists have known that Mars was once a much warmer and wetter environment than it is today. However, between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, its atmosphere was slowly stripped away, which turned the surface into the cold and desiccated place we know today. Even after multiple missions have confirmed the presence of ancient lake beds and rivers, there are still unanswered questions about how much water Mars once had. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-huge-river-delta-mars-oceans.html Space Exploration Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:19:59 EDT news456135592 Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency. https://phys.org/news/2017-06-japan-reveals-moon.html Space Exploration Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:05:30 EDT news418014324 China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020. https://phys.org/news/2016-12-china-probes-side-moon-mars.html Space Exploration Tue, 27 Dec 2016 02:43:17 EST news402028990 China has unveiled illustrations of a Mars probe and rover it aims to send to the Red Planet at the end of the decade in a mission that faces "unprecedented" challenges, state media said on Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2016-08-china-unveils-mars-rover-concept.html Space Exploration Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:45:58 EDT news391221935 After 30 years of working on dozens of missions, an ESA antenna in Australia has been retired because of urban expansion and the increased risk of radio interference. https://phys.org/news/2016-01-australian-esa-antenna.html Space Exploration Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:50:03 EST news372063834 We've known for a long time that there's water on Mars. Now we know – thanks to NASA's latest announcement – that some of it is at the surface. https://phys.org/news/2015-09-mars-life.html Space Exploration Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:50:01 EDT news362734701 The United Arab Emirates' planned 2020 mission to Mars will study the planet's atmosphere and be appropriately named "Hope," members of the project team revealed Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2015-05-uae-explore-mars-atmosphere-probe.html Space Exploration Wed, 06 May 2015 07:37:04 EDT news350116617 Oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Monday launched a project that aims to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021. https://phys.org/news/2014-10-uae-unmanned-probe-mars.html Space Exploration Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:50:02 EDT news333024044 Oil-rich United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday it will create a space agency with the aim of sending the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021. https://phys.org/news/2014-07-uae-space-agency-unmanned-probe.html Space Exploration Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:20:01 EDT news324716504 India's Mars spacecraft was "successfully" raised into a higher orbit around Earth early on Tuesday, after a brief engine failure during an earlier attempt, the space agency said. https://phys.org/news/2013-11-india-mars-mission-track-glitch.html Space Exploration Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:11:07 EST news303448258 India's Mars spacecraft suffered a brief engine failure Monday as scientists tried to move it into a higher orbit around Earth, but controllers denied any setback to the ambitious low-cost mission. https://phys.org/news/2013-11-indian-mars-mission-glitch-setback.html Space Exploration Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:21:14 EST news303373263 India's Mars spacecraft has completed the first of a series of engine firings designed to free it from Earth's gravitational pull and propel it towards the Red Planet, scientists said Friday. https://phys.org/news/2013-11-indian-mars-mission-track.html Space Exploration Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:35:06 EST news303100496 India began a countdown Sunday to the launch of its most ambitious and risky space mission to date, sending a probe to Mars which was conceived in just 15 months on a tiny budget. https://phys.org/news/2013-11-india-mars-prestige-space-mission.html Space Exploration Sun, 03 Nov 2013 05:10:01 EST news302676996 The head of India's space agency warned Thursday of the immense complexity of sending a mission to Mars as the country prepares to send its first interplanetary probe to explore the atmosphere there. https://phys.org/news/2013-10-indian-space-braced-tricky-mars.html Space Exploration Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:40:01 EDT news302434247 NASA's Curiosity rover was designed to search Mars for places capable of supporting life. But the $2.5 billion mission has another, unofficial objective: To serve as a goodwill ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., at a time when funding for planetary exploration is in jeopardy. https://phys.org/news/2012-12-mars-rover-curiosity-mission-pr.html Space Exploration Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:58:33 EST news273862704 China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media reported Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-china-samples-mars-xinhua.html Space Exploration Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:38:31 EDT news269095101 India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars in November 2013, a senior official from the country's space research establishment said on Monday. https://phys.org/news/2012-09-india-mars-mission.html Space Exploration Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:18:55 EDT news267095924 India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-india-mars-mission-pm.html Space Exploration Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:20:56 EDT news264226845 India's government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet's climate and geology, a report said Saturday. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-india-mission-mars.html Space Exploration Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:59:27 EDT news263303960 The Russian cargo ship Progress M-14M was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday, bringing water and fuel to the International Space Station, the mission control centre said. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-russian-cargo-vessel-space-station.html Space Exploration Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:43 EST news246774333 Russia vowed Monday to expose the officials responsible for the failure of a Mars probe that the military said crashed into the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth for more than two months. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-russian-mars-probe-inglorious-pacific.html Space Exploration Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:43:28 EST news245914998