Ah, yet another aliens-spotted-on-Mars-by-NASA conspiracy theory. You'd think people get tired of this sort of thing, but apparently not. Looks like the media haven't got tired of writing about such rubbish either. I wouldn't mind so much, if they were even half as eager to write about REAL space science discoveries/events.


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On Saturday, NASA launched their latest Mars probe: Phoenix. I find myself hoping the name won't be prophetic, and that the spacecraft won't end up as a flaming "bird" winging its way across the Martian skies ( Read more... )

It would seem my hopes for spacecraft taking pictures of each other isn't over just yet. According to New Scientist today NASA has asked ESA for help in searching for the still missing Mars Global Surveyor (MGS ( Read more... )

Damn. My hopes for inter-spacecraft photography seem to have been dashed. According to Mars Daily things didn't turn out as planned, and "preliminary analysis of the images did not show any definitive sightings of a spacecraft". Double damn. On the up side, NASA have said "efforts to regain contact with the spacecraft and determine what has ( Read more... )

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Would you like to spend the next 2 years on a mission to Mars, and get paid for the trouble? Why not? Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency) is actually looking for 5 "international" volunteers to do exactly that - all be it in a simulator on the premises of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medical and Biological Research in northern Moscow ( Read more... )