MARS

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will align right before the end of the month.

If you missed the three-planet cosmic kiss in early March, take note of a bigger event at the end of the month.

First hibernation studies with human subjects could be feasible within a decade, a European Space Agency (ESA) researcher thinks.

China's Zhurong Mars rover may be stuck, but scientists using data from the mission are still hopeful that the vehicle can reactivate and explore once more.

A study simulated what would happen if a super-Earth orbited in the middle of our solar system, and the results are chaotic.

NASA's Curiosity on Mars sent back images of sun rays for the first time as the rover begins a study on clouds and their composition high up in the atmosphere.

China's Zhurong rover has provided one of the few peeks into what lies below the surface of Mars.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed China's Zhurong rover in the same location for five months, indicating the rover has not yet awoken from hibernation.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has photographed clear signs of ripples locked into a Martian rock, a sign of an ancient lake on the Red Planet's surface.

Tianwen 1, China's first interplanetary mission, marked its second anniversary in Mars orbit on Feb. 10, but there was no update about the mission's Zhurong rover.

A mass spectrometer called the Orbitrap has been scaled down to fit on astrobiology missions to planets and moons of the solar system.

NASA's Curiosity rover has recently found rippled rock textures that suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars. Scientists had expected the region to be drier.

The ongoing search for 45-year-old Nicola Bulley leads many of Saturday's papers.

We know precious little about how Mars got its atmosphere or how it disappeared. Now, thanks to some rocks from Duluth, Minnesota, scientists have a new theory.

The James Webb Space Telescope had to perform outside of its design limits to observe the collision of NASA's DART probe with asteroid moonlet Dimorphos last year.

A NASA spacecraft recently found a strange delight in the cracked and pockmarked surface of Mars: The cartoonish likeness of a bear’s face. The unexpected image was snapped in late December by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for nearly two decades, EarthSky.org says. The photo was then shared by the University of Arizona’s Lunar & Planetary Laboratory with the following explanation:“There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head). The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater. To see an archive of HiRISE “Pictures of the Day,” visit uahirise.org/hipod.

In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates questioned whether Musk's vision of colonizing Mars was a good use of money.

"You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 per life," Bill Gates told the BBC, adding Elon Musk has had a positive impact through Tesla.

A rare comet that last visited during Neanderthal times is streaking back our way after 50,000, according to NASA.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 41st time on Mars Jan. 27, going 'there and back again' with 600 feet (183 meters) of flight distance over 109 seconds.

A powerful camera operated by the University of Arizona has captured a photo of what appears to be a bear face on the red planet.

The surprise bear face spans more than 1 mile across.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse structure" resembles a snout.

NASA placed a supersonic combustion engine on the firing stand, and early tests for interplanetary exploration show promise.

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.

The M&M spokescandies are only the latest to get swallowed up by the left’s dominance of corporate culture. Mia from Land O Lakes butter and her buddy the Frito Bandito were simply sacrificed on the altar of corporate wokemanship. The M&M public relations strategy was to turn a popular family brand woke overnight. M&M'S DITCHES ‘SPOKESCANDIES’ – FOR NOW – AFTER STEPS TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY DEEMED TOO POLARIZINGThat didn’t used to be the case and, fair to say, Mars started it. M&Ms finally ditched the woke marketing the company tried to ram down customers’ throats almost a year ago to the day.

A&W Restaurants decided to have a little fun after an online outcry over the green M&M's change of footwear.

Mars Inc. is either caving to the culture wars or exploiting them for publicity. Neither is good.

Mars says it’s pausing using its trademark M&M’s spokescandies and has enlisted actor and comedian Maya Rudolph to star in its marketing efforts.

Candy maker Mars is replacing its M&Ms "spokescandies" with actress Maya Rudolph after facing right-wing criticism.

On Monday (Jan. 30), the moon will cross in front of Mars, causing an occultation or eclipse of the planet.

And it would be strangely beautiful to behold.

Humans evolved in conditions of plentiful gravity and relatively little radiation. Space is the reverse — and it upends almost every system inside of us.

Stoke Space is developing a clean-fueled, rapidly reusable rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit.

M&M's creator Mars announced its new "all-female" M&M's packaging to go with its candies for a limited time to promote women's "success and happiness."

Read on for monthly horoscopes written by an astrologer for January 2023 and how the full moon, new moon and Mercury retrograde might affect you.

Clear skies beckoned Wednesday (Dec. 28) in Rome, allowing the Virtual Telescope Project's Gianluca Masi to get busy with a year-end broadcast.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible with the naked eye from many areas.

Take a grand tour of the solar system tonight (Dec. 28) as each of the planets in the solar system will be visible at the same time.

In 2023 several countries will launch missions to the Moon and beyond.

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface, its longest sample yet.

Check out our thoughts on this preview build of Deliver Us Mars, the upcoming space game from indie developers Keoken Interactive.

The sample return tubes carried by NASA's Perseverance rover look like 'Star Wars' lightsabers, inspiring a NASA manager to joke about using the Force on Mars.

Five bright planets visible in the evening during Christmas week and beyond make an affordable telescope a well-timed gift.

Travelers hoping to visit the U.S. are now waiting hundreds of days for a visa, though the White House says it's processing faster recently.

"It's assumed InSight may have reached the end of its operations," NASA said.

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace WriterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars. Ground controllers at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew the end was near, but NASA reported that InSight unexpectedly didn’t respond to communications from Earth on Sunday. “It’s assumed InSight may have reached the end of its operations,” NASA said late Monday, adding that its last communication was Thursday. “It’s unknown what prompted the change in its energy.”The team will keep trying to contact InSight, just in case. Just last week, scientists revealed that InSight scored another first, capturing a Martian dust devil not just in pictures, but sound.

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander on Mars.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn expected to be visible at same time Friday through New Year’s Eve.

How else would you catch a Martian dust devil?

Friends and colleagues say his plans may be hard to predict, but they wouldn't bet against him.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover carried a small helicopter called Ingenuity that has blown expectations away, and scientists are eager to build on its work on the Red Planet and beyond.

The microphone picked up 308 dust pings as the dust devil whipped by, the study's author said.

A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead last year and caught the sound.

NASA has built a new rocket and spacecraft to get Artemis astronauts to the moon, and it's developing a new toolkit for them to use on the lunar surface as well.

Homebuilders have pumped the brakes on new single-family home construction this year, a trend that’s likely to extend into 2023, according to several forecasts.

"Dec. 7 brings one of those magical moments when the sky changes dramatically before your very eyes," NASA said.

Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet.

Welcome to Saturday, Motown.

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is losing power and is headed for a dusty demise.

Mother Nature is painting a masterpiece for today.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently captured images of the gear that helped the Perseverance rover land on Mars.

I’ve shown you videos of solar eclipses many times over my long career. But the one I’m going to show you here is a first for me, and probably for you. It’s a solar eclipse on Mars.

Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting to send its first rover to Mars this year.

The European Space Agency says the launch this year of a joint mission with Russia to Mars is now “very unlikely” due to sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine.

There's a lot happening in space lately -- here's a roundup of what's new this week, including a tree stump of sorts on a different planet, Earth has a new companion and the International Space Station will come crashing to Earth soon.

Toyota says it's working with Japan’s space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and eventually live on Mars.

Candy maker Mars is giving a makeover to its six M&M’s characters as a way to promote inclusivity.

Scientists have concluded that a meteorite from Mars contains no evidence of ancient Martian life.

If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it.

The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to send a probe to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter to collect data on the origins of the universe.

The small helicopter that landed on Mars with rover Perseverance has exceeded expectations, flying for the 12th time on the red planet and capturing the landscape like never before.

China's Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for whether it once supported life.

NASA is looking for volunteers to help them simulate a mission to the Red Planet.

NASA’s newest Mars rover has come up empty in its first attempt to pick up a rock sample to eventually be brought back to Earth.

The small helicopter flying on Mars hasn’t just been successful -- it’s been overachieving.

NASA is teaming up with the maker of Tide to figure out how to do laundry in space.

The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos the rover took on the red planet.

NASA's little Mars helicopter is safely on the ground following a wild, lurching ride caused by a navigation timing error.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has picked a date to step down as CEO.

China says its Mars probe and accompanying rover are expected to land on the red planet sometime between Saturday and Wednesday Beijing time.

Space-related news is not just flowing from the world’s richest, biggest nations.

NASA's little Mars helicopter is getting an extra month of flying.

For its third Mars flight, NASA's small Mars chopper flew at speeds and distances well beyond what had ever been previously tested here on Earth.

China says it will launch its next robot lunar lander in 2024, and it will carry equipment from France, Sweden, Russia and Italy.

China's space agency says its first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god.

The first flight lasted just 30 seconds with Ingenuity simply taking off, hovering 10 feet above the ground and touching down again. Each flight will get more complicated.

SpaceX has launched its third crew in under a year for NASA, this time using a recycled rocket and capsule.

NASA's little Mars helicopter has aced its second test flight.

One of the goals of NASA’s Mars Rover, Perseverance, is to test new technology that could support future human missions to the Red Planet.

An interactive exhibit is being held at the Somerset Collection.

NASA collected data from their small helicopter Ingenuity on Monday morning that revealed its successful flight on mars -- the first controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.

NASA's experimental Mars helicopter has taken flight.

Here is the weather forecast for Metro Detroit.

All systems are “go” for the maiden Mars flight of NASA’s small helicopter Ingenuity this weekend.

And as of Tuesday morning, NASA's small helicopter Ingenuity has survived a cold night on Mars and is nearly ready for its maiden flight.

The most important aspect of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is obviously to search for past life on the Red Planet -- but the most fascinating aspect may take place this week.

A visitor to an exhibition looks at a display with a replica of the Chinese Mars Rover of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft in Beijing on March 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING – As their respective spacecrafts headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals. China's National Space Agency confirmed Wednesday that it had working-level meetings and communications with NASA from January to March “to ensure the flight safety" of their crafts. U.S. law bans almost all contacts between NASA and China over concerns about technology theft and the secretive, military-backed nature of China’s space program. China's Tianwen-1 is orbiting Mars in preparation for a landing in May or June.

NASA is getting ready for yet another historic flight: A 4-pound helicopter is being prepared to fly on Mars. During a news briefing on Tuesday, NASA officials and engineers talked about preparations for the upcoming maiden voyage of the small helicopter, named Ingenuity. AdSee: Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopperNASA is hoping to fly the small Ingenuity on April 8. NASA’s successfully landed its Mars Rover Perseverance on Feb. 18 this year near an ancient river delta in the Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient microscopic life. AdMore: Check out these new photos from Mars Rover ‘Perseverance’Related: Dream realized: Rochester Hills native named NASA flight director