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After a lengthy "hammering session" of 150 strokes, the "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander started "bouncing in place."
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By Victor Tangermann

In a new white paper, a team of researchers argue that flying by Venus on future crewed missions to Mars could make a lot of sense.
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By Victor Tangermann

China, the UAE, and the U.S. all plan to launch Mars missions this month to capitalize on the planets' fortunate alignment.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new mathematical model predicts that a self-sustaining colony on Mars could succeed with just 110 settlers working together.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have yet to find any evidence of life on another planet.But that hasn't stopped some rogue scientists from making outlandish claims.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA just delayed the launch date for its Mars rover, Perseverance. But barring any future delays, the mission should still go off without a hitch.
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By Dan Robitzski

This year, NASA wants to take a giant leap from scanning Mars' geographical features using surface-bound rovers to launching a small helicopter.
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By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: SpaceX Building Floating Spaceports for Moon, Mars Launches
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have identified a green glow in the atmosphere of Mars caused by oxygen atoms being released from carbon dioxide due to sunlight.
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By Victor Tangermann

After over a year, NASA's InSight Mars lander finally managed to get its thermal probe underground, where it can record the planet's internal temperature.
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By Dan Robitzski

Building on existing research, researchers suggest that Mars' moon Deimos will likely be split up into tiny rocks, forming a ring around the planet.
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By Victor Tangermann

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA is looking for participants to spent eight months together inside a spaceflight simulator at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
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By Victor Tangermann

By playing around with mud in a special lab, an international team of researchers found that Mars is likely covered in strange mud volcanos.
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By Victor Tangermann

In order to equip future Martian settlers, scientists suggest altering their DNA to give them the traits they need to survive.
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By Dan Robitzski

Engineers are building experimental rovers that can vibrate intensely to escape from dangerous, wheel-clogging sand traps on Mars.
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By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect future Mars settlers from deadly cosmic radiation, researchers suggest building homes in underground tunnels called lava tubes.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA' Perseverance rover just found signs of ancient life in Australia, giving researchers hope that it's well-equipped to do the same on Mars.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have found new evidence of the earliest rivers that once flowed on Mars billions of years ago for around 100,000 Earth years.
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By Victor Tangermann

The White House's 2021 budget would cripple NASA's ongoing and future Mars missions. It would also mean shutting down the Curiosity rover.
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By Dan Robitzski

China's space agency says that its mission to Mars is still happening "in coming months," and that the mission finally has an official name.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are suggesting we could explore the surface of Mars using a fleet of "nanocardboard" aircraft.
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By Victor Tangermann

The team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has transitioned to controlling the rover from their home offices amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA spotted a "dragon" in a image taken by University of Arizona's HiRISE camera attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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By Victor Tangermann

Despite budget overruns — and a pandemic — NASA is determined to get its next Mars rover called "Perseverance" off the ground in July.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars rover's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the rover to thwack it with a shovel.
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By Dan Robitzski

An international team of astrobiologists claim that organic molecules discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover could be evidence for early life on Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

Even in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, China has remained on track to launch its planned mission to Mars later this year.
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By Dan Robitzski

"Unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the moon or a city on Mars."
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By Victor Tangermann

After a nation-wide stdudent contest, NASA has selected "Perseverance" as the name for its next Mars rover, set to launch later this year.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped more than 1,000 images, which teams back on Earth composed into a 360 degree Martian landscape panorama.
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By Victor Tangermann

Six new studies were published today, detailing some of the discoveries made by NASA's InSight Mars lander, including evidence of a strange glow in the sky.
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By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with British fashion and culture magazine The Face,  singer and visual artist Grimes revealed her wild plans to travel to Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

If there's life on Mars, experts agree, it's probably beneath the surface. Finding evidence could require some lateral thinking -- or boots on the ground.
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By Jon Christian

Japanese space agency JAXA announced today it has greenlit a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos called the Martian Moons Exploration mission.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA is building a huge dish in California that it hopes will allow Mars astronauts to communicate with Earth — using high-powered lasers.
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By Jon Christian

CEO Elon Musk has dropped yet another hint that a Tesla Cybertruck could be headed to Mars aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket.
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By Kristin Houser

In October 2019, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to snap a photo of a massive active dust devil — and you can now see it for yourself.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.
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By Dan Robitzski

A scientist and a fashion designer on working a "Martian death project" that would include a system to compost dead Mars colonists' corpses.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just experienced a technical glitch losing its orientation, forcing it to stop in its tracks.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a series of tweets on Thursday evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed some more details of his greater plans to colonize Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars 2020 rover rolled forward and backward for the first time inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, clearing small ramps.
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By Victor Tangermann

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
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By Kristin Houser

Ohio University pulled a press release detailing a professor’s “evidence” that Mars is home to bugs, but won’t say if it stands behind the research.
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By Kristin Houser

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.
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By Dan Robitzski

IKEA interior designer Christina Levenborn just helped researchers outfit the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analogue habitat in the Utah desert.
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By Victor Tangermann

This scientist from Oregon State University believes the professor who claims to have evidence of insects on Mars was just an example of pareidolia.
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By Victor Tangermann

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
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By Dan Robitzski

An entomologist claims rover photos show life on Mars in the form of both living and fossilized insects, but the evidence is far from convincing.
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By Kristin Houser

China has successfully launched its Tianwen-1 — Heavenly Questions — mission to Mars, including an orbiter, lander, and a rover.
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By Victor Tangermann

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.
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By Kristin Houser

Geneticist Chris Mason has an unusual idea for helping future astronauts survive the trip to Mars: gene-hack them with tardigrade DNA that blocks radiation.
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By Dan Robitzski

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced the country's first ever plans to send astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency is about to test if an astronaut on board the International Space Station is capable of taking control of Moon rovers from space.
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By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin argues we already discovered we're not alone in the universe during NASA's Viking mission to find life on Mars in 1976.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected some "peculiar sounds" thanks to its onboard seismometer that's capable of picking up on the tiniest of vibrations.
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By Victor Tangermann

Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes that were mere years away from finding life on Mars thanks to the next generation of future Mars rovers.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.
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By Natalie Coleman

To feed colonists on Mars, we'll need to find a way to produce food there — and a team of researchers thinkgs it knows the best wait to go about it.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA just attached its new semi-autonomous helicopter drone to the rover it's sending to Mars next year. Pending a few more tests, it should be ready to go.
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By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he is "highly confident" that his space company will land humans on the Martian surface as soon as 2026.
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By Victor Tangermann