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Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering.

SpaceX Files for IPO

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've come up with an explanation for the acceleration of Mars' rotation after spotting a "negative mass anomaly."

Scientists Intrigued by “Negative Mass Anomaly” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Conspiracy theorists suggested they had stumbled upon a pyramid on Mars that could've been built by aliens. Scientists are not buying it.

Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is putting Mars back in the crosshairs with a first-of-its-kind nuclear mission it says will launch by the end of 2028.

NASA Announces Nuclear Mission to Mars by 2028

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges that look like spiderwebs from space.

NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers argue that the presence of long chain carbon molecules on Mars "cannot be readily explained" by non-biological processes alone.

NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

An image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows its LED lights lighting up a hole it drilled into the surface of the rock.

This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.

Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

By Victor Tangermann

For future Moon missions, South Korean scientists created a small rover with a special wheel that can expand and contract like kinetic art.

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover set a record by driving a quarter mile in a single day, doing so autonomously.

NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

By Frank Landymore

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

NASA Rover Captures Electric Dust Devils Wandering the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft.

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

By Victor Tangermann