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Available soon: Martian weather forecasts

NASA wants a Texas A&M University professor to start predicting the weather on Mars using the same methods meteorologists use to predict Earth weather.

Mars Snackfood US issues allergy alert

Today, Mars Snackfood US announced a voluntary recall of its Dove Caramel Pecan Perfection ice cream with the lot number 931AB5YN07 because it may contain undeclared peanuts.
Oct 26, 2009 by  Bob Ewing in Food - 2 comments

Participants Wanted for Simulated Flight to Mars

If you've got some time to kill, why not spend the next 520 days on a trip to the red planet? Well, a simulated one anyways.
Oct 22, 2009 by  Christoffer Olling Back in Science

Review: Complete DVD histories of The Unit, Kings & Life On Mars Special

With every episode of 3 great, short-lived series now available on essential DVD collections, you have more than a weekend's worth of entertainment ahead of you. Need more? Try CSI:NY, Toronto Maple Leafs, Lions, Away We Go, Girlfriend Experience & MvA.
Oct 3, 2009 by  Earl Dittman in Entertainment - 1 comment

Red dust colors sky and the city, making Sydney look like Mars

The drought is back in a big way, and Mars has dropped in to say hello on the back of the north west wind, aka The Blowtorch, the bushfire-sponsoring wind that comes off the desert a couple of thousand miles away in Australia.
Sep 22, 2009 by  Paul Wallis in Environment - 35 comments

Mars colony 'will make the world a better place'

Prominent world thinkers were recently asked for their ideas on what would make the world a better place. Ideas ranged from choosing to drink organic shade-grown coffee to establishing a human colony on Mars.
Sep 10, 2009 by  Kevin Jess in World - 6 comments

NASA budget 'hard to fit and still have an exploration program'

Budgetary constraints are keeping NASA's space exploration programs grounded. Planned trips to the moon and to Mars are under funded.
Aug 26, 2009 by  Michael Krebs in Science

Tragedy mars first ever 'Ironman' sports event in the Philippines

A sad and unexpected tragedy detract the first-ever Ironman competition in the Philippines – the Cobra Energy Drink Ironman 70.3 after 52-year old competitor, Miguel Vasquez died during the event's swim leg at the CamSur Watersports Complex (CWC).
Aug 23, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in Sports

Search for life on Mars leads to Newfoundland, Canada

An outcrop of 500-million-year-old rock in Western Newfoundland's Gros Morne National Park, already a famous tourist attraction, is now the focus of the search for life on Mars.
Aug 12, 2009 by  Stephanie Dearing in Science - 6 comments

Buzz Aldrin: Put Humans on Mars by 2031

It has been 40 years since Apollo 11's mission to the moon and Buzz Aldrin still believes that mission resonates today. That is why we should look at going to Mars in two decades, he pronounced.
Aug 4, 2009 by  Andrew Moran in Science

Man on Mars: The next giant leap for mankind?

40 years after the first manned moon landing piloted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, NASA's dream of sending astronauts in Mars remains to be what it is... a dream.
Jul 22, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in Science

Is There a Secret Water Table Hidden on Mars?

Although satellite data clearly suggests otherwise, scientists have determined that it is possible that the “Red Planet” could have a hidden water table beneath its rocky crust. What does this mean for future research? Read on and explore.
Jun 27, 2009 by  M Dee Dubroff in Environment - 19 comments

At the Drive-In reunion rumours crushed

Cedric Bixler-Zavala, former vocalist for Texan post-hardcore band At the Drive-In and the current frontman of The Mars Volta, has backflipped on previous comments that his former band could possibly reunite in the future.
Jun 18, 2009 by  David James Young in Entertainment

Opinion: Free Chocolate a Sweet Deal Until You Read the Details Special

The Mars company is calling it Free Chocolate Fridays, so I went to the site that was posted in the business section of the Los Angeles Daily News to check it out and see if it’s a sweet deal, the real deal or a raw deal.
May 26, 2009 by  Sandy Sand in Business - 6 comments

No Women, No Visitors on Mock Mars Mission

Today, four Russians, a German and a Frenchman walked into a pod in Moscow and promised not to leave for 105 days in an attempt to see how the psychological and physical effects of a flight to Mars may play out.
Mar 31, 2009 by  KJ Mullins in Science - 1 comment

Help Choose a Name for the Mars Science Laboratory

Polls have opened on the final naming of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover. The non-binding poll to help NASA select a name opened on Monday will stay open until Sunday Mar. 29.
Mar 24, 2009 by  Tim Neale in Science - 4 comments

Mars Phoenix Lander finds water droplets on its leg

The Mars Phoenix Lander is investigating the presence of water on the Red Planet, and recently found water droplets along its own leg.
Mar 19, 2009 by  Chris V. Thangham in Environment

Google Mars adds historical images of Red Planet

Google Mars, like the Google Earth and Google Maps tools, has lots of new and old images that span almost the entire Red Planet.
Mar 15, 2009 by  Chris V. Thangham in Environment

Opinion: Crystalline DNA? Russian space experiment changes the rules

A manned Russian mission to Mars is in at least the rhetorical stage. Survival in space has been an issue for decades. The Russians, discovering a mosquito which survived direct exposure to space, for 18 months were more than interested.
Feb 20, 2009 by  Paul Wallis in Science - 5 comments

Google Earth provides Mars roving

Google has now provided the ability to explore Mars with the latest version of its Google Earth application. The Mars images are intended to be used for casual investigation as well as serious research.
Feb 3, 2009 by  Naved Akhtar in Technology
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