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NASA will pay most of the $9 billion cost of bringing Martian dirt back to Earth
NASA's $2.7 billion Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February, and will bring back Martian soil…
Kevin Reilly
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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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After the Moon, Mars is getting laser-reflecting mirror to help future landings on the Red Planet
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s brand-new Mars Perseverance Rover is currently …
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
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NASA photos reveal SpaceX is scouting these 9 places on Mars to land its first Starship rocket missions
By using solar (or perhaps nuclear) energy, Musk says a process called the Sabatier reaction could …
Dave Mosher
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Europe's lost Mars lander probably 'exploded on impact' - see the photos
"Estimates are that Schiaparelli dropped from a height of between 2 and 4 kilometres, therefore imp…
Dave Mosher
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One of Europe's probes may have crashed into the robot graveyard that is Mars
If the probe survived, it should have also taken pictures of its descent and will later attempt to …
Dave Mosher
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Depressing new photos of Europe's doomed Mars probe show it exploded into pieces
The HiRISE team animated a handful of images from October 25 through November 1, and they show the …
Dave Mosher
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Congress just passed a bill that tells NASA to send people to Mars by 2033
President Trump has expressed support for a crewed exploration of Mars. In his inauguration speech,…
Dave Mosher
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A depressing new photo shows the smoking crater left by a European spacecraft on Mars
"Estimates are that Schiaparelli dropped from a height of between 2 and 4 kilometers, therefore imp…
Dave Mosher
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France just announced plans to help India land on Mars for the first time
Founded in 1961, CNES has helped design and build the technology for such groundbreaking missions a…
Jessica Orwig
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Watch live as Europe tries to successfully land a probe on Mars for the first time today
It wasn't until January 2015 - more than a decade later - that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter f…
Dave Mosher
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UK SPACE AGENCY BOSS: Brexit won't derail our mission to discover life on Mars
Peake has previously made clear that the UK's involvement in ESA will not be affected by Brexit bec…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead.
Russia's grand return to the moon ended with its robotic lander crashing and forming a crater. That…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Moon Day celebrates when man first landed on the Moon and how 51 years later everyone wants a piece of it
National Moon Day may only be celebrated in the United States but it marks a moment that is a miles…
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NASA's Hubble space telescope just took incredible photos of a visiting comet from another star system
"New comets are always unpredictable," Max Mutchler, another member of the Hubble team, said in the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China is building a brand-new space station, and it may be the latest move in a new space race
NASA has already spent about $100 billion to keep the space station - which functions like an orbit…
Jeremy Berke
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Earth's air supply may reach nearly 400,000 miles into space - so far that the moon constantly flies through it
SOHO, which has been in operation for about 23 years, carries an ultraviolet-light-recording instru…