Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
Elon Musk demands investigation into the strange square formation on Mars: “We should send astronauts to Mars to investigate!”
A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...
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Perseverance Mars rover finds 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on Red Planet's Silver Mountain
The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.
'Mars mission goes dark' : Astronauts could lose their vision before they even land
Astronauts face vision loss due to microgravity-induced eye changes. NASA races to find solutions before Mars missions, where ...
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To Find Life on Mars, Make Microbes Wiggle
“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter's icy moon
This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...
There's another planet parade coming up. When, how to see 7 planet alignment in February
According to Star Walk, "the next time seven planets will align (after Feb. 28, 2025) is likely to be around late 2028." "An ...
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Fleet Space Secures Moon to Mars Grant to Advance Gravity Sensing for Lunar and Martian Exploration
The new gravity sensors from Fleet Space will revolutionize subsurface exploration on the Moon and Mars, optimizing landing ...