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'If it's possible, it must be done': Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has his eyes on missions to Mars and Venus

Space company Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA's Perseverance rover samples back from Mars.

Space

Elon Musk Calls It 'Epic View' As Jeff Bezos Shares Sights From His New 'Free-Flying' Space Camera On Board New Shepard

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin scored a new milestone with its 35th New Shepard launch and also drew praise from rival Elon Musk as the billionaire space race intensifies.

Benzinga

New moon of August 2025 gets eclipsed today

September's new moon occurs on Sept. 21 and will partially eclipse the sun for skywatchers in the southern Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.

Space

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Could a Mars crater have once hosted life? NASA's Perseverance rover finds more evidence it's possible

Fresh analysis of Perseverance rover data reveals Jezero Crater experienced repeated episodes of water activity, strengthening the case for habitability and raising the stakes for Mars Sample Return.

Space

Landing site for Rosalind Franklin rover may be ripe with clues about ancient Mars life

Natural geologic processes at Mars' Oxia Planum may improve the Rosalind Franklin rover's chances of detecting organic compounds.

Space

Curiosity Mars rover puzzles over intriguing 'boxwork' pattern | Space photo of the day for Sept. 19, 2025

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp looking for clues about Mars' watery past. Here, it looks at the boxwork pattern for ancient water flow.

Space

Skywatching alert! See 2 bright comets on the same night as a meteor shower this October

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) can now be seen with binoculars close to Mars in the western sky after sunset.

LiveScience

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Mars to invest €1bn in Europe as Kellanova deal remains unresolved

The American confectionery giant said that the investment will go towards modernising manufacturing, with factories in France, Poland and Lithuania among those set to benefit.

Euronews

Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it for military communications.

Space

SpaceX moves next Starship spacecraft to launch pad for testing (photos)

SpaceX has moved its newest Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the megarocket's upcoming 11th test flight.

Space

Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life

NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s investigation of a distinctive rock outcrop called Bright Angel on the edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater. This outcrop is notable for…

The Conversation

'We're really on a different trajectory': How NASA's Artemis moon missions aim to prepare us for Mars

NASA is working on finding landing sites for future moon astronauts. Part of the work includes thinking about how to prepare for eventual Mars missions with astronauts.

Space

Humanity could settle Mars by 2055, Elon Musk says

Humanity can establish a self-sustaining settlement on Mars in the next 30 years, provided our heavy-lift launch technology advances as planned, SpaceX chief Elon Musk said.

Space

We can finally predict when Mars' skies will glow green with auroras, scientists say

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them works."

Space

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50 years ago, NASA sent 2 spacecraft to search for life on Mars – the Viking missions' findings are still discussed today

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology experiments.

The Independent UK

Nuclear rocket could slash mission times to Mars

Centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket can travel faster with less fuel

International Business Times UK

NASA Life on Mars Announcement: What They Finally Found After Years of Experiment

NASA reveals its strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars after years of experiment with Perseverance rover's Cheyava Falls rock sample.

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This theme park sim based on a 30-year-old sci-fi movie is so much better than it has a right to be

The red planet becomes a go-to destination in Mars Attracts.

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‘The Ziggy Stardust suit sparked my adolescent awakening’: Moby, Goldie, Natalie Merchant and more delve inside Bowie’s archives

As a huge new public collection opens this weekend, famous fans pick out their touchstones – from the game-changing wardrobe that gave birth to glam to the synthesiser that drove his Berlin years

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 177 — Life on Mars?

On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Tice to talk about a possible detection of ancient life on Mars.

The Guardian - UK

British woman among crew training for Mars simulation mission

Laura Marie is one of six research volunteers preparing to spend 378 days inside Nasa’s Mars Dune Alpha in Houston

LiveScience

Where could alien life exist in our solar system?

The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them?

The Conversation

Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains what these traces of life are, and how researchers figure out their source

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from of a unique, striped rock called Chevaya Falls. The rover’s instruments then analyzed the sample, which is called Sapphire Canyon, and surveyed the…

Space

Mars shines red next to blue Spica at sunset on Sept. 13

Red Mars meets bright Spica in the sunset sky this week.

Space

Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.

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