The most expensive Lincoln penny in history was a 1943 copper-alloy cent that was sold for $US1.7 million in a 1996 auction. Nothing compared to this one, though. This penny is going be put on Mars for a nice $US2.5 billion. Not bad! More »
We knew there was water in abundance in Mars, but we never saw its ocean. This is it, as uncovered by strong new evidence found over the course of two years by the MARSIS radar on board ESA’s Mars Express. More »
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk around on Mars? For 99.99999% of us, this may be as close as we ever get. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given us the honour of taking the lid off of this awesome, interactive eye-candy. Basically it’s Google Earth, for Mars. More »
Pssst. Hey, you. Yeah, you. Wanna buy some Mars? This is no bridge sale, son, it’s the real deal. Just $US22,500 an ounce and you can own your own little bit of the Red Planet. More »
Don’t be anti-social while you wait for definitive signs of water, ancient ruins or alien life! NASA/JPL’s new app for Android and iOS, called Mars Images, lets you view the latest photos from the Mars Rover without having to sit at home, constantly whacking F5 on the official website. More »
Forget Kenya. Never mind the secret madrassas. The sinister, shocking truth about Barack Obama’s past lies not in east Africa, but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future president teleported there, along with the future head of Darpa. More »
Oh joy. Phobos-Grunt, that failed Mars moon soil probe launched in November, is set to re-enter the atmosphere sometime between January 6 and 9 – packed with tonnes of explosive hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide chemical fuel. Oh, and total battery failure has it charted to fall between latitudes 51.4 degrees north and 51.4 degrees south – an area spanning all of Australia (but also Africa, Japan and parts of North America and Western Europe). More »
The European Space Agency’ Mars Express spacecraft has discovered “large volumes of water ice” hiding only 20m underground the red planet’s surface, in the Phlegra Montes mountain range. It could be used by future human explorers. More »
Today the next Mars rover will start its journey to the red planet. Only this time, NASA is sending something the size of a car. How the hell? More »
Just what the hell is going on here? A piece of candy under the microscope? An oil slick? Are we all on drugs right now? No — well, maybe you are — but this picture isn’t the result. It’s from spaaa-aaace. More »
