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Mars has an eerie green glow of oxygen and it could be the key to unlocking seasons on the Red Planet
Mars is the only planet in the universe, other than Earth, where astronomers have been able to spot…
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Elon Musk tweets that SpaceX will start program to pull carbon dioxide in atmosphere and use it as rocket fuel
The billionaire SpaceX founder says in a separate tweet that the new program "will also be importan…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic vandalism'
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he plans to have a million people on Mars by 2050. Scientists say tha…
Maiya Focht
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Chinese scientists created a robot that can make oxygen on Mars. It could allow humans to someday live on the red planet.
The robot was able to come up with the experiment and carry it out "without human intervention." It…
Marianne Guenot
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Mars is spinning faster and its days are getting shorter — and scientists aren't sure why
Mars is losing a fraction of a millisecond every year, according to measurements by NASA's InSight …
Marianne Guenot
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NASA's Curiosity rover captures first 'Sun Rays' on Mars
While sunsets on Mars are uniquely moody, NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a stunning image of a…
ANI
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A device on NASA's Perseverance rover generated enough oxygen on Mars for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours. Astronauts could be next.
Scientists hope to use the pilot technology to build out a more robust system that would produce en…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McG…
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NASA engineers expected their Mars helicopter to crash after 5 liftoffs. It just landed its 15th flight.
Engineers weren't sure if NASA's Ingenuity helicopter would even lift off on Mars. But the drone ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Ghostly photos from NASA's Curiosity rover reveal beautiful, rare clouds and the first sun rays ever spotted on Mars
NASA says the ethereal images beamed back from the Curiosity rover on Mars' surface show colorful i…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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NASA's Curiosity rover captured rare photos of pearly, iridescent clouds on Mars
Mars clouds are seasonal and rare, but Curiosity caught some colorful early wisps that seem to be m…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover just turned CO2 into oxygen. The technology could help astronauts breathe on Mars.
NASA wants to send astronauts to Mars, where the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. An experiment ju…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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6 analog astronauts are camping out in the Israeli desert for a month to simulate life on Mars
The experiment in Israel is meant to help scientists learn how to avoid mistakes that could endange…
Aria Bendix
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TOUCHDOWN ON MARS: NASA's Perseverance rover has landed safely after a supersonic plunge
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has landed in Jezero Crater, beginning a new era of exploration on t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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3 spacecraft are set to reach Mars this month, from NASA, China, and the UAE. Here's what they aim to learn.
NASA is bringing a helicopter, and China aims to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover from just one…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is launching its $2.4 billion Perseverance Mars rover on Thursday. The nuclear-powered robot will test technologies astronauts need on the red planet.
The nuclear-powered rover will roam Mars' Jezero Crater, where some of the planet's oldest rock is …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover is reliably producing oxygen. A scaled-up version could help astronauts breathe on Mars one day.
A toaster-sized instrument tucked inside NASA's Perseverance rover is consistently producing oxygen…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars on Sunday. NASA and China are about to follow with their own rovers, an orbiter, and a helicopter.
NASA is planning to send its fifth rover to the red planet. China and the UAE have never been to Ma…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's former Mars leader says the agency is 'keeping their eye' on a crewed mission to the Red Planet
As NASA prepared to go back to the moon with SpaceX, Elon Musk and Scott Hubbard, a former NASA Mar…
Kevin Shalvey
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NASA's Mars rover is carrying a device that turns CO2 into oxygen, like a tree. It's a crucial step toward future human missions.
NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, is on its way to Mars carrying an experiment known as MOXIE that w…
Susie Neilson
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NASA just launched its Mars alien-hunting Perseverance rover into deep space with a drone tucked under its belly
The car-size rover will drill into Martian rocks, look for chemical signatures of ancient microbial…