It’s April 2019—and perhaps the month that will later be known as the dawn of the Age of Fungus. A concerning report in…
Should all go according to plan, NASA will launch its next Martian rover in July 2020. The robotic probe is still under…
Researchers with the ExoMars mission are pointing to a potential computing glitch as the cause of last week’s crash of…
NASA is racing to finish a new Mars rover, and the mission just got a launch and land date. The new rover will leave…
Late last year, the lander NASA was going to send up to Mars was grounded just three months before its planned launch…
When NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, millions of people across the globe tuned in to watch. It…
In August 2012, millions of Earthlings watched live as a hovering sky crane dropped the Curiosity rover onto the…
Mars InSight lander was set to blast its way towards the red planet just three short months from now. Today, NASA…
The first Martian marathon was no easy trek: the Opportunity rover had to struggle through smooth, soft sand and…
We’re big fans of xkcd here at Gizmodo (who isn’t?), and also of learnin’ about things, so we’re pretty excited for…
On the 949th day of its Martian mission, the Curiosity Rover was spotted by its space-based companion, the Mars…
Back in 2010, XKCD's Randall Munroe devoted a surprisingly moving webcomic to Spirit, NASA's ill-fated and ultimately…
Driving on the surface of Mars pretty much sucks. Even though the Opportunity rover celebrated its 11th anniversary on…
NASA has had some truly bad luck lately, underscored by the cancellation of an ambitious balloon mission due to a leak…
When sending spacecraft to Mars, the current, preferred method involves shooting spacecraft towards Mars at…
It took a little more than 2 years and nearly 9 kilometers of driving, but NASA's Curiosity Rover has finally reached…
NASA plans to extend seven of its ongoing planetary missions, a review panel announced yesterday. Two of the…
NASA's Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission…
NASA just announced what the Mars 2020 rover will carry to the Martian surface, and one of them sounds like pure…
NASA's Curiosity rover recently... erm... "unburdened" itself of a rock sample, then took a photo to mark the…
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