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• Bruno Mars' sisters get WE TV reality series

  April 11, 2013 4:19 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - Bruno Mars isn't the only singer in the family. The 27-year-old Grammy winner's four sisters will appear in a WEtv reality series documenting the recording process of their debut album, the cable network announced Wednesday. The show will air this fall. It will include eight hour-long... more »

• Tycoon proposes to send married couple around Mars

  February 27, 2013 3:34 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A tycoon and space experts have announced an audacious but bare-bones private plan to send a married couple around Mars in 2018. They wouldn't land on the planet, just zip by and return. The mission announced Wednesday would last more than 16 months. Team member Taber MacCallum... more »

• Mars rover finishes first drilling project

  February 9, 2013 1:13 PM

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - To scientists' excitement, the Curiosity rover has completed its first drilling on Mars and is preparing to analyze a pinch of powdery rock. Images beamed back to Earth overnight showed a fresh drill hole next to a test hole the rover made earlier. The feat marked... more »

• Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year

  December 29, 2012 12:44 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's newest Mars rover is gearing up for a road trip. But first, it has to drill into a rock. Curiosity's first priority in the new year is to test out its drill. Mission managers had wanted to get it done this year, but they ran... more »

• NASA Curiosity rover takes a bite of Martian soil

  October 30, 2012 8:23 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Scientists say the Martian soil at the rover Curiosity's landing site contains minerals similar to what's found on Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano. The finding released Tuesday is the latest step in trying to better understand whether the environment could have been hospitable to microbial life. Curiosity... more »

• Curiosity rover beams new will.i.am song from Mars

  August 28, 2012 8:50 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Will.i.am has premiered his new single - from Mars. The NASA rover Curiosity beamed to Earth his new song "Reach for the Stars" on Tuesday in the first music broadcast from another planet, to the delight of students who gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to... more »

• Fellow astronaut remembers Neil Armstrong Play Video

  August 27, 2012 8:34 PM

  Since Neil Armstrong's death over the weekend, many of us have been looking back to the Apollo 11 mission where he was the first man to step on the moon. A former astronaut, now living in Woodland Park, had a chance to meet Armstrong years ago. Retired Brigadier General... more »

• NASA spacecraft barreling toward a Mars landing

  August 4, 2012 3:23 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Curiosity rover is zooming toward Mars. With about a day to go until a landing attempt, the space agency says the nuclear-powered rover appears on course. Tension will be high Sunday night when Curiosity plummets through the thin Martian atmosphere and attempts to set its... more »

• New Mars mission begins this weekend

  July 30, 2012 7:09 PM

  NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission begins this weekend with the arrival of the smartest rover ever built. Like an Olympic gymnast, the rover must "stick the landing." It won't be easy. The touchdown for the rover called Curiosity is so risky it's been described as "seven minutes of... more »

• Candy maker puts products on a diet

  February 16, 2012 12:44 PM

  Mars, the maker of Snickers, Twix and M&M's, has announced that it will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories in them, by the end of next year. The company also says it will reduce sodium levels by a quarter, by the year 2015. The company says... more »

• Mission to Mars

  November 26, 2011 8:10 AM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is all set to launch the world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer. A six-wheeled, one-armed Mars rover is due to blast off Saturday morning from Cape Canaveral. The unmanned Atlas V rocket will put the spacecraft on an 8½-month trek to the red planet. ... more »

• Obama heralds launch of final space shuttle

  July 8, 2011 4:15 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - With the launch of Atlantis on NASA's final space shuttle mission, President Barack Obama says a proud country watched as "America reached for the heavens once more." Obama congratulated the Atlantis astronauts and space workers on what he called a "picture perfect launch" Friday from Cape... more »

• NASA to choose between 2 Mars landing sites

  July 6, 2011 11:31 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA is deciding between two places on Mars to send its next rover. The space agency said Wednesday that the project team and outside scientists have narrowed the options to two landing sites. The nuclear-powered rover nicknamed Curiosity will touch down either in Gale... more »

• NASA prepping next Mars spacecraft for fall launch

  June 23, 2011 8:55 PM

  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's next roving spacecraft to the surface of Mars has arrived in Florida after a cross-country flight to undergo final testing. A C-17 cargo jet carrying the rover nicknamed Curiosity took off from March Air Force Base in California and arrived Wednesday night in Florida.... more »

• Mars Yard open at local Aerospace Academy

  December 1, 2010 11:10 AM

  A Mars mock-up, complete with robots and Mars landscape, has opened at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs. The Mars Yard was made possible by a grant from Honeywell. The goal is to allow students to operate the robots, as if they were scientists operating the real... more »

• Mars mission led by CU-Boulder gets green light

  October 6, 2010 8:31 AM

  NASA has given the go-ahead to a $438 million mission led by the University of Colorado-Boulder to investigate Mars and the likelihood that it once harbored life. NASA said Tuesday that a review team approved the plans and budget for the project, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN.... more »

• U.S. space supremacy now in question

  April 17, 2010 11:05 PM

  In the midst of President Obama's announcement Thursday that NASA's human space flight budget will be reduced. Many in the space industry fear the US is losing its grip on space superiority. "What we are seeing is that we are not holding our place." says Janet Stevens with the Space... more »

• Senators: NASA lacks a goal

  February 24, 2010 4:32 PM

  Skeptical senators are telling NASA's chief that the space agency lacks a goal and destination. Earlier this month, the White House killed the previous administration's plan to back to the moon. The space shuttles will soon be retired. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says his agency has an ultimate goal:... more »

• NASA ends effort to free rover from Martian sand

  January 26, 2010 1:55 PM

  NASA's Mars rover Spirit will rove no more. The space agency said Tuesday that scientists have given up trying to free Spirit, which has been trapped in soft sand since last April. Instead, the focus will turn to tilting it to the north so it can get enough sunlight... more »