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NASA has released the first-ever sounds of its Mars Helicopter in flight, picked up by the agency's Perseverance rover some 262 feet away.

Listen to NASA’s Mars Helicopter Taking Off

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are shredding a scientific paper that claims to have found photographic evidence of mushrooms on Mars.

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Experts Shred Paper Claiming to Identify Mushrooms on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that Mars could still have active volcanoes, and recent eruptions could have happened 50,000 instead of billions of years ago.

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Study: Mars Could Still Have Active Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers believes it has found ample evidence of a variety of fungus-like creatures on Mars by looking at NASA rover and orbiter images.

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Extremely Dubious Research Claims to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

To SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the only way to "make life multiplanetary" is to "create rapidly and fully reusable orbital rockets."

Elon Musk Celebrates Starship Landing: “Needed to Make Life Multiplanetary”

By Victor Tangermann

After a failed attempt earlier this week, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully taken to the skies for a fourth time, soaring to new heights.

After Failed Flight, Mars Helicopter Successfully Soars Once Again

By Victor Tangermann

During its third heroic flight on the surface of Mars on April 25, NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter managed to catch the Perseverance rover in the frame.

Mars Helicopter Snaps Photo of Mars Rover, Way Down on the Surface

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover caught Ingenuity's third flight on camera, showing just how far the little helicopter got on the Martian surface.

Amazing Video Shows Mars Helicopter Cruising Above Martian Surface

By Victor Tangermann

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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Hits Record Speeds in Third Flight

By Tony Ho Tran

After its first groundbreaking flight on the surface of Mars, NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is about to take off for the second time.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Much Longer Flight, Does Tricks

By Victor Tangermann

A scientific instrument attached to NASA's Perseverance rover just sucked up a bit of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and turned it into oxygen.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Turned Martian CO2 Into Oxygen

By Victor Tangermann

In the process of lifting off from the Martian surface, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter kicked up a real storm, as a new video shows.

New Vid Shows NASA’s Mars Helicopter Kicking Up Dust During Flight

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has shown off the first high-resolution video of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter taking to the skies on Monday morning.

New Video Shows Mars Helicopter Flight in Higher Resolution

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity became the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on the surface of another planet earlier this morning.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Achieves Flight on Red Planet

By Victor Tangermann

During a conference, SpaceX COO and president Gwynne Shotwell said the company is hoping to get the first people to Mars inside a Starship "before 2030."

SpaceX COO: “We Will Fly Large Numbers of People on Starship in Five Years”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars lander InSight is caked in so much dust that it can't harness enough solar energy to stay operational through the Martian winter.

NASA Takes Emergency Action to Save Dying Mars Lander

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab have concluded that the Ingenuity Mars helicopter needs to have its flight control software reinstalled.

NASA Says Oops, Mars Helicopter Needs Software Update to Fly

By Victor Tangermann

First, Musk claimed the title "Technoking of Tesla." Now, the billionaire has added the phrase "Imperator of Mars" to his Twitter bio.

Elon Musk Says He Is Now the “Imperator of Mars”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released a stunning new photo of Mars on Thursday depicting a series of bright-blue dunes near the Red Planet’s polar cap.

Amazing NASA Photo Shows Bright-Blue Dunes on Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Hits Error, First Flight Delayed

By Tony Ho Tran

A low resolution video made up of several images shows NASA's Mars helicopter's two rotocopter blades spinning up on the surface of Mars.

Marscopter Spins up Blades in Preparation for Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.

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The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance rover just snapped its next incredible selfie — and this time around, it's not just of itself.

NASA’s New Mars Rover Takes Selfie With Helicopter in Background

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars helicopter dubbed Ingenuity is online and just snapped its first color photo over the weekend.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is Online and Just Sent Back a Photo

By Victor Tangermann

In an email to Futurism, JPL media relations specialist Andrew Good confirmed that the "rainbow" spotted by Perseverance was the result of a lens flare.

NASA: That’s Not a Rainbow We Photographed on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover's Hazard Avoidance Camera picked up what appears to be a perfect rainbow above the Red Planet's arid surface.

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NASA Releases Breathtaking Rover Photo of “Rainbow” on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists finally figured out what caused the gigantic spider-like formations on Mars' south pole by recreating the planet's environment in a lab.

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Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Spiders” Spotted on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

By Tony Ho Tran

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”

By Tony Ho Tran

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has snapped a pair of breathtaking pictures of a sunlit crescent Mars.

China’s Mars Probe Takes Breathtaking Picture of Crescent Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA showed off a picture of a peculiar Martian rock that was zapped with its rover Perseverance's onboard laser.

NASA Shows Off Photo of Rock With Laser Holes From Mars Rover

By Victor Tangermann

In a rare turn of events, China's National Space Administration (CNSA) exchanged information with NASA about its Mars orbiter, as SpaceNews.com reports.

China Shared Information With NASA About Its Mars Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is getting ready to gently lower the agency's Ingenuity helicopter onto the Martian surface below it.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Just Unfurled Its Legs

By Victor Tangermann

To celebrate the occasion, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is stashing a small piece of fabric from the famous Wright aircraft under its solar panel.

NASA Hid a Small Piece of the Wright Brothers’ Airplane in Its Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has chosen the location to attempt a historic first with its Ingenuity Helicopter: the first time a manmade object to take flight on Mars.

NASA Chooses “Airfield” Location for Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

In a tweet, Musk promised that "SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030." The real challenge is to make "Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining."

Elon Musk Says He’ll Be Landing Starships on Mars “Well Before 2030”

By Victor Tangermann

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

By Victor Tangermann

The architecture firm ABIBOO released mockups for a futuristic Martian city that would become a sustainable, off-world home to 250,000 people.

Plans Unveiled for Grand Mars City

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a mountain of seismic data from NASA's InSight spacecraft, scientists finally took a precise measurement of the size of Mars' core.

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Scientists Finally Measure the Size of Mars’ Core

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has released recordings of its Perseverance rover driving on the surface of Mars. And it sounds rough.

Listen to the Sounds NASA’s Rover Makes As It Drives Around Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently released footage of the first dust devil, a tiny, traveling twister, spotted by the Perseverance rover on Mars.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Spotted a Tiny Twister on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new paper published by researchers at Caltech, Mars may still hold anywhere between 30 and 99 percent of its ancient water within its crust.

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Mars’ Oceans May Have Drained Into Its Interior

By Victor Tangermann

Queen Elizabeth II took some time last week to join a Zoom call about Mars, space, and STEM to help celebrate British Science Week.

The Queen Joins WFH Culture, Participates In Zoom Call About Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

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

NASA Using Navajo Language to Name New Mars Discoveries

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has released an incredible video of the pictures its Perseverance rover took right before landing on Mars on February 18th.

First-Person Vid Shows Perseverance Hurtling Toward Mars Surface

By Victor Tangermann

In a clip uploaded to SoundCloud, we get to listen to "the first audio recordings of laser strikes on Mars," courtesy of NASA's Perseverance rover.

NASA’s New Rover Just Shot a Rock With Its Laser

By Victor Tangermann

NASA research reveals that Mars dust is whipping around the inner solar system, blasting spacecraft and even reaching Earth.

Science & Energy

Mars Is Spraying the Earth With Dust Storms, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

After touching down in the Jezero Crater on February 18, NASA's Mars rover is getting ready for its big journey — and dropping off a special delivery.

NASA May Have Picked a Place to Fly the Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced Friday that the touchdown site of the Perseverance Rover will be named after sci-fi writer and pioneer Octavia Butler.

NASA Names Mars Landing Site After Sci-Fi Pioneer Octavia Butler

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is officially on the move.Recently uploaded images show the six-wheeled robot's tracks imprinted in the dust around it.

NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Officially on the Move

By Victor Tangermann

The China National Space Administration released several new high-definition images captured by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe currently in the planet's orbit.

China Releases Stunning Images From Mars Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has spent the last week getting ready for work and stretching its seven foot robotic arm.

NASA’s Mars Rover “Percy” Stretches Its Arm for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

NASA embedded a secret code on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover to help inspire others. Here's exactly what it says.

All the Easter Eggs NASA Engineers Left on the Mars Rover

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera. It spotted a strangely shaped rock.

NASA Scientists Spot Strangely Shaped Rock in Latest Mars Panorama

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.

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Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted something rather strange on the Martian surface below: a deep pit, appearing in the form of a black spot.

NASA Spots Deep, Strange Hole on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers managed to hide a clever message in the red and white colors of its Perseverance rover's parachute that it used to successfully land on Mars.

NASA Hid a Clever Secret Message in Its Mars Rover’s Parachute

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers have stitched together a highly detailed 360-degree panorama of Perseverance's landing site in the Jezero Crater.

NASA Releases Incredible Panorama of Mars Rover’s Landing Site

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released the first ever microphone recordings taken on the surface of Mars, as picked up by one of the Perseverance Mars rover's two microphones.

NASA Releases First-Ever Recording of Sound on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just released footage of its Perseverance Mars rover touching down on the Red Planet. The incredible video is a nail biter.

NASA Releases Video of Perseverance Touching Down on Mars

By Jon Christian

As of today, you can access dozens of RAW images from NASA's Perseverance Mars lander, with many more hopefully on the way.

In Reversal, NASA Is Now Releasing RAW Images From Perseverance

By Jon Christian

According to a new study by scientists from NASA and the German Aerospace Center, some Earthling microbes could survive the hostile conditions on Mars.

Black Mold From Earth Could Survive on Mars, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann