Scientists Suspected That Mars Was Once a Habitable Planet. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Just Cleared Up Any Doubts
SpaceThe confirmation of an incomplete carbon cycle on Mars has made it clear that a planet’s habitability is fragile.
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Researchers Just Found a Lichen Species That Can Live and Thrive on Mars. This Is Why It’s an Incredibly Fascinating Discovery
SpaceWhile humans may not be able to colonize Mars in the near future, scientists have an idea of the “plants” people could bring with them.
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Elon Musk Says That Mars Will Be Part of the U.S. His Claim Is a Historic Challenge to the Outer Space Treaty
Space“I might go to Mars, but that will be part of America,” Musk recently claimed at a rally in Wisconsin.
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Elon Musk Shuts Down Design Flaw Rumors in the New Starship, Says It’s Going to Mars Next Year
SpaceSpaceX plans to launch around five unmanned spacecraft to Mars by the end of 2026.
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China Is Getting Closer to Surpassing NASA With Its Own Mars Mission. It Just Invited Other Countries to Join
SpaceWith NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission on hold, China has a chance to be the first to bring back Martian soil samples.
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Scientists Thought They Knew Why Mars Was Red. New Research Changes Everything
SpaceThe planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war, due to its red color, which is associated with blood. However, the history behind its rusty hue stretches back much further.
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Curiosity Continues to Send Videos From Mars Back to Earth. Its Latest One Reveals Something Unusual About the Planet’s Clouds
SpaceNow more than a decade old, Curiosity continues to send back valuable data and captivating images from the Martian surface.
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Elon Musk Isn’t Just Influencing NASA. He’s Starting to Dominate It
SpaceFrom the idea of conquering Mars as part of America’s “manifest destiny” to securing key appointments, SpaceX and Musk’s presence at NASA seems to be becoming increasingly prominent.
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A Collector Bought a Meteorite in Morocco in 2011. Scientists Say It Proves There’s Thermal Water on Mars
SpaceThe 320-gram rock was found in the Sahara Desert and subsequently sold to an American collector.
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NASA Wants to Collect Samples From Mars Before China. It’s Considering Using SpaceX’s Starship for the Task
SpaceA final decision on the chosen approach is expected in the second half of 2026.
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Elon Musk Has Calculated What He Needs to Build a Sustainable City on Mars: 1,000 Starships and 20 Years of Launches
SpaceFor years, Musk has worked with the goal of colonizing Mars.
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11 Months Later, NASA Explains Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars: An Area of the Red Planet Disoriented Its System
SpaceSensors were key to the helicopter’s crash.
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Scientists Have a New Origin Theory for Mars’ Potato-Shaped Moons: A Shredded Asteroid
SpaceA new paper suggests that an asteroid that got too close to Mars may have given the planet a temporary ring. That ring later became moons.
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Elon Musk Is Ready to Colonize Mars. His Chosen Form of Government: A Direct Democracy, With Some Nuances
SpaceIn Musk’s vision, the laws on Mars would be simpler than those on Earth and would have an expiration date.
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The Perseverance Rover Is Emerging From the Martian Crater Where It Landed for the First Time. The Views Are Breathtaking
SpaceNASA's rover has faced several challenges while attempting to climb the sloping terrain.
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A Father and Daughter Decoded an ‘Alien’ Signal From Mars That Contained the Essential Components of Life
SpaceIf humans ever come into contact with extraterrestrial life, experiments like this are essential.
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China’s Zhurong Rover Found These Mysterious Polygonal Structures Under the Martian Soil. They May Be More Common Than We Thought
SpaceThe rover’s instruments detected these structures at a depth of about 115 feet as it traversed the Utopia Planitia region.
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NASA Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Spiders on Mars. It Recreated Them on Earth
SpaceMars spiders have been discovered on Earth, and scientists are excited.
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NASA Holds Its Breath As Perseverance Rover Begins to Climb the Crater Rim Where It Got Stuck
SpaceThe car-sized rover landed in Mars’ Jezero crater over three years ago.
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Shooting ‘Glitter’ Over the Martian Sky. This Is the Latest Idea From a Group of Scientists to Make the Red Planet Habitable
SpaceSituations as complex as making the Red Planet habitable require extraordinary measures. This is undoubtedly one of them.
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