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NASA Found Strange Holes on Mars. Scientists Aren't Sure What Made Them.

NASA's Curiosity rover has reached a 5,000-sol milestone on Mars, coinciding with the discovery of mysterious holes of unknown origin.

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China on track to launch Mars sample-return mission in 2028: 'If accurate, this represents a Sputnik moment'

China moves to launch a Mars sample-return mission in 2028, prompting comparisons to a Sputnik moment from a former NASA expert.

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Elon Musk’s MAGA Shift, Self-Driving Cars, Myths About Mars and More Get Examined in New Documentary: 5 Biggest Revelations

A new documentary examines the political shift, technological claims, and space ambitions of Elon Musk through five major revelations.

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The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks

A NASA rover has discovered extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks on Mars, strengthening the case for potential past life.

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China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples

China is accelerating its Tianwen-3 mission to retrieve Mars samples, aiming to beat the US in the race to find traces of Martian life.

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NASA selects Blue Origin for Mars communications orbiter

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Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program

NASA is pivoting its Mars exploration strategy toward aerial autonomy as AeroVironment begins work on the SkyFall helicopter mission.

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‘Veronica Mars’ star Jason Dohring shares why he left Hollywood to become a farmer

Jason Dohring, known for his role in 'Veronica Mars,' has transitioned from a career in Hollywood acting to a new life as a professional farmer.

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NASA Spots a Bizarre 'Jellyfish' Floating on Mars. Here's What We Know.

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Curiosity climbs to new heights on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 28, 2026

NASA's Curiosity rover has reached a significant milestone on Mars, achieving a 1-kilometer elevation gain as documented in new surface visuals.

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Who Needs Life On Mars When It Has Glacial Spiders?

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Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet

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Scientists Discover Vast Underground 'Anomaly' on Mars

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Thermal anomaly discovered below Mars' south pole

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‘Jellyfish’ on Mars: Image from Curiosity rover goes viral

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Mars Curiosity rover discovers massive field of polygons

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Nuclear Spacecraft

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Nasa’s 2028 Mars mission will send a spacecraft with a nuclear reactor toward Mars and release three smal

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NASA set to launch first fusion-powered interplanetary spacecraft 'SR-1 Freedom' to Mars in 2028: Mission Possible

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NASA plans to send a working nuclear reactor toward Mars in late 2028. Space Reactor-1 Freedom will split uranium atoms in deep space to generate electricity for its engines — the first test of a technology NASA hopes will eventually help power human miss

NASA is preparing to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom in late 2028, testing nuclear power technology for interplanetary travel toward Mars.

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Japan unveils Mars moon sample-return spacecraft ahead of Oct. 19 launch (photos)

Japan is preparing to launch the MMX mission to collect the first-ever samples from a Martian moon for return to Earth.

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Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video of the crater where Mark Watney was stranded in 'The Martian'

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has captured a detailed 3D flight around the Schiaparelli Crater.

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A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon

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NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna For SkyFall Mars Helicopters

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Perseverance rover watchs alien solar eclipse on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 19, 2026

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Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons

The Mars Curiosity rover discovers a massive field of polygons, revealing new geological features on the surface of Mars.

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“Jellyfish” Spotted In NASA Mars Photo Sparks Frenzy As People Dig For Explanation

A NASA photograph of Mars has sparked a viral frenzy after observers identified a shape resembling a jellyfish within the image.

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Bizarre 'jellyfish spotted on Mars' in resurfaced Nasa images

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On 2 July 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover captured Earth disappearing behind Phobos from the surface of Mars — the first time in history a camera on another planet has watched our world vanish behind another object.

For the first time in history, NASA's Perseverance rover captured Earth disappearing behind the Martian moon Phobos as seen from the surface of Mars.

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Japan aims for the moons of Mars

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Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chap

Zhurong rover discovers gypsum crystals on 760-million-year-old Martian terrain that may contain sealed pockets of ancient brine.

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NASA Releases Hi-Res Mars Panoramas of Honeycomb Landscapes and a Sand-Capped Butte

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Iconic candies — M&M’s, Skittles, Starbust — get stripped of artificial coloring as Mars chases sugar high with less dye

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Mars Meteorite Found in Algeria Dates Back to a Previously Hidden Time

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'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise

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Of the roughly 400 Martian meteorites ever found on Earth, none has been dated to the window between 600 million and 2.4 billion years ago — until a rock found in Algeria in 2019 was confirmed this month as 1.273 billion years old, sitting precisely in th

A Martian meteorite found in Algeria fills a massive billion-year gap in the planet's history, according to recent scientific coverage.

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1-billion-year-old Mars meteorite found in Algeria is like nothing we've seen from the Red Planet

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Mars could have carried liquid water more recently than we thought

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Rare Mars meteorite preserves 1.27-billion-year-old clues to planet's deep interior

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Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all

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AI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment: a Mars rover picks its own laser targets with 93 percent accuracy, and one satellite's entire first AI experiment was built by a single engineer in unde

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Look What NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Spotted Vanishing Behind the Martian Moon Phobos

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This 819bhp supercar is what a Porsche 911 Turbo S designed for Mars would look like

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Even On The Red Planet, Hexagons Are The Bestagons

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Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

NASA's Perseverance rover is approaching a record-breaking distance on Mars, marking a major milestone for self-driving technology on another planet.

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NASA admin: fission is the fuel to get us to Mars

NASA is pivoting toward nuclear fission technology to power future missions to Mars and secure American leadership in the new space race.

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One Of NASA's Mars Rovers Could Find Itself Promised To The Moon Instead

NASA is considering rerouting Perseverance's Earthbound twin rover to the lunar south pole under a new proposal called PROMISE.

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NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes

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Mars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos photo of the day for Aug. 6, 2025

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Musk, Money and Mars

Financial markets and media outlets scrutinize Elon Musk's ambitious and costly plans for Mars exploration.

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Curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycombs on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 5, 2026

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'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data

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Giant Waves of Solar Wind May Have Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere, New Study Finds

New scientific research suggests giant waves of solar wind are actively stripping the atmosphere from Mars, posing a challenge to future colonization goals.

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The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter vastly outperformed its initial thirty-day mission by flying for nearly three years on Mars.

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Mars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went now has two answers: some was stripped away into space, and a great deal of it may still be there, locked deep in the planet's crust

Recent findings reveal Martian water was both lost to space and locked deep within the planet's crust.

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What NASA learned by pointing an asteroid probe at Mars

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Top Comments: Curiosity Rover on Mars Discovers a Honeycombed Landscape

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Mars has such thin air that around noon near the equator, sunlit ground beneath your boots could reach 24 degrees Celsius while the air around your head remained below freezing — allowing one standing person to span temperatures resembling spring and

New discoveries of hematite and water-trapping micro-habitats are reshaping the scientific understanding of Mars' surface environment.

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Will SpaceX paint its rocket pink? Investor questions go beyond Moon and Mars ahead of first results

SpaceX faces a critical non-launch test this week as investors weigh the company's massive market capitalization shifts against Tesla's value.

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