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Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, whose subsurface ocean may harbor alien life. (Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)
June 14, 2026, 4:56 pm
Contact? Groundbreaking Israeli method may soon detect life in outer space
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say their statistical toolbox will be used aboard planned Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft, Eureka, set to reach Jupiter’s smallest moon in the 2030s
By Diana Bletter
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, at Sotheby's, in New York, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
July 17, 2025, 8:36 pm
Martian meteorite sells for record $5.3 million at New York auction
54-pound rock named NWA 16788 is largest ever found on Earth originating from Mars; dinosaur skeleton sells for more than $30 million
By Dave Collins
An Israeli analog astronaut in a simulated spacesuit exits the Mars habitat in the Ramon Crater in the Negev on October 31, 2021. (Amy Spiro)
January 30, 2025, 5:48 pm
After US pledges a Mars landing, Israeli deep space venture hitches wagon to Trump’s star
Creation-Space launches accelerator to invest in young startups tailoring tech solutions toward a sustainable human presence on the Red Planet and improving life on Earth
By Sharon Wrobel
This image provided by the UAE Space Agency shows the planet Mars and its moon, Deimos, in the foreground. The United Arab Emirates’ Amal spacecraft - Arabic for Hope - flew within 62 miles of Deimos in March 2023. (UAE Space Agency via AP)
April 24, 2023, 11:55 pm
UAE spacecraft snaps close-up of Mars’ little moon
Emirati space agency releases pictures taken by Amal probe from within 62 miles of Deimos last month, the closest a craft has been to the tiny satellite in over 45 years
By Marcia Dunn
This March 4, 2021 file photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a month, collecting data and making discoveries with each passing day. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
December 14, 2022, 6:04 am
Mars rover captures the 1st sound of a dust devil on the red planet
In a fortunate accident, NASA vehicle searching for ancient microbial life records a few seconds of Martian gusts as dust pings its microphone and winds whip by
By Marcia Dunn
Fluid inside a salt crystal with what appear to be microorganisms. (Courtesy/Courtesy Sara Schreder-Gomes)
May 28, 2022, 6:52 am
US scientists to open crystals that may hold 830-million-year-old living organisms
Researchers observe what appear to be microorganisms trapped in liquid inside a salt formation; study could provide insight into life on other planets
By ToI Staff
Israeli analog astronauts on their mission on the D-MARS Project on February 18, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)
April 5, 2022, 4:25 pm
Negev space sim center becomes Mars for new Israeli-German teen show
Live action series ‘DreaMars’ from HOT network takes 8 youngsters on troubled space mission
By Jessica Steinberg
A 1:3 scale model of the landing unit Schiaparelli of the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission is seen at the ESA space operation center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)
March 17, 2022, 5:47 pm
Failure to launch: Russian-European Mars mission suspended over Ukraine invasion
European Space Agency makes announcement about planned September launch after Russian agency responded to EU sanctions by withdrawing over 100 workers from Europe’s spaceport
By AFP
This composite image made from a series of Jan. 23, 2018 photos shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)
January 24, 2022, 4:32 pm
Israeli astrobiologist: New Mars ancient life findings ‘important’ but incomplete
Dr. Reut Sorek Abramovich says NASA discovery of signs of carbon in Red Planet rock samples requires ‘thorough research in the field,’ preferably by manned mission
By ToI Staff
An Israeli analog astronaut walks inside a simulated spacesuit next to a space rover in the Ramon Crater in the Negev on October 31, 2021. (Amy Spiro)
November 1, 2021, 4:50 pm
Astronauts ‘touch down’ in Negev’s Ramon Crater after mission to ‘Mars’
In a collaboration between the Israel Space Agency and the Austrian Space Forum, 6 analog astronauts spent several weeks simulating life on Red Planet and conducting experiments
By Amy Spiro
A couple of astronauts from a team from Europe and Israel walk in spacesuits during a training mission for planet Mars at a site that simulates an off-site station at the Ramon Crater in Mitzpe Ramon in Israel's southern Negev desert on October 10, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
October 12, 2021, 1:48 am
Six ‘astronauts’ on month-long mission in Israeli desert to prepare for Mars
Participants from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain simulating life on the Red Planet to perfect the survival skills needed for eventual voyage
By Alexandra Vardi
Sarah Al Amiri, Emirati Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and Deputy Project Manager of the Emirates Mars Mission speaks ahead of a live broadcast of the Hope Probe as it attempts to enter Mars orbit as a part of Emirates Mars mission, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
October 5, 2021, 3:59 pm
UAE to send probe to land on asteroid between Mars and Jupiter
Project to collect data on origins of the universe eyes 2028 launch with a landing in 2033, a five-year journey in which the spacecraft will travel some 3.6 billion kilometers
By AP
This image provided by NASA shows Loay Elbasyouni, a Palestinian engineer who is part of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team on April 25, 2021. (NASA via AP)
May 2, 2021, 8:28 am
From Gaza to Mars: Palestinian engineer behind helicopter flight on red planet
But Loay Elbasyouni, who grew up in Beit Hanoun before moving to US, says Israeli and Egyptian travel restrictions make visiting his hometown an even bigger challenge
By Agencies
In this image from NASA, NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity stands on the surface of Mars (NASA via AP)
April 19, 2021, 3:02 pm
NASA’s Mars helicopter achieves first powered flight on another planet
Tiny aircraft Ingenuity carries a bit of wing fabric from the the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Wright Flyer
By Marcia Dunn
This Mar. 7, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows tire tracks left by the Mars Perseverance rover (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
March 18, 2021, 7:54 am
Perseverance rover sends back 1st sounds of driving on Mars
‘If I heard these sounds driving my car, I’d pull over and call for a tow,’ says engineer, before adding that the clanking makes ‘perfect sense’ coming from the red planet
By Marcia Dunn
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