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Is Mars really red? A physicist explains the planet’s reddish hue and why it looks different to some telescopes

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“No one ever knew the number, so it never rang”: The intriguing mystery of the ringing phone captured at the end of David Bowie’s Life on Mars

The ringing phone that closes out Bowie’s Hunky Dory epic was captured by accident - and nobody quite knows who was on the other end

MusicRadar

Starwatch: Mars and Regulus will make for an eye-catching pair

Celestial objects will be separated by less than a degree and the colour difference between them will be striking

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NASA spots Martian volcano twice the height of Mount Everest bursting through the morning clouds: Space photo of the week

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick blanket of clouds before dawn.

LiveScience

How to see Mars visit a bright star and the moon this June

During the latter part of June, Mars will put on a couple of eye-catching shows, teaming up first with a bright star and then, late this month, with the moon.

Space

Mars settlement and more: Global space leaders will tackle big ideas next week at ISDC 2025

Space visionaries, scientists, entrepreneurs and students from around the world are set to gather in Florida next week for this year's International Space Development Conference.

Space

Living on Mars: are there lessons from prisons?

I have been researching the possibility of living on Mars for several years. But it took an invitation to give a talk about space at HMP Erlestoke in England – a category C men’s prison – to make me realise that there are a surprising number of similarities between the…

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“I had three days to learn the entire set… One rehearsal. I met Pink at soundcheck right before the first show then I’m playing in front of thousands and thousands of people”: Eva Gardner on trial by fire with pop megastars and returning to the Mars Volta

Eva Gardner has played with Cher, Moby, Pink, Veruca Salt... the list goes on. Here she reveals how it all started with a bass from Andy Johns, how it's going with the Mars Volta – and what comes next

Guitar World

Cathie Wood's Ark Says Elon Musk's SpaceX Valuation Could Reach $2.5T by 2030, $12.8T by 2040

Ark Invest, in collaboration with consulting firm Mach33, forecast that SpaceX could reach an enterprise value of $2.5 trillion by 2030 as it works to complete its Starlink constellation and ramps Optimus robots production for efficiencies.

International Business Times UK

European Space Agency reveals 3 key space missions threatened by Trump's NASA budget cuts

At least three ESA space missions are under threat as a result of Trump's budget cuts. The gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and NewAthena may require "recovery actions."

Space

Cathie Wood’s ARK sees $2.5 trillion valuation for SpaceX by 2030

That valuation would represent a 38% annualized return from SpaceX’s $350 billion funding round in December.

Fortune

NASA shuts down X accounts as fears swirl about massive cuts to science initiatives

The agency’s budget proposal slashes total funding by nearly 25 percent, impacting science programs

The Independent UK

Odds of ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Moon increase

It would be one of largest asteroids in recent history to hit lunar surface

The Independent UK

12-mile-tall volcano on Mars punches through clouds | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2025

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captures one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes peeking over clouds at dawn.

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'What a waste:' US scientists decry Trump's 47% cuts to NASA science budget

"I don't think it is an overstatement to say that morale among U.S.-based scientists is at an all-time low."

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Explore the alien caverns of Mars in Blind Descent, a subterranean survival game that's giving Subnautica via Jules Verne

Journey to the center of somewhere quite a lot deadlier than Earth

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Mystery of the dark markings on Mars could finally be solved

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These mysterious dark ‘streaks’ on Mars aren’t what scientists initially believed

Hundreds of meters long, the marks on the red planet’s surface mysteriously vanish and reappear

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Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA's moon and Mars efforts

Sen. Ted Cruz's newly unveiled legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill would dedicate almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China.

Space

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' (photo)

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and unreachable world. And yet, before the invention of the rocket, astronomers who wanted…

The Independent UK

Why Trump and Musk’s spectacular feud could be a disaster for space travel

SpaceX has a tight hold on any plans for the US to send its astronauts to space – and onto the Moon and Mars

LiveScience

Two stunning conjunctions will light up the night sky this month. Here's how to see Mars and Mercury 'kiss' the moon

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.

Space

Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

The Independent UK

Wicked: For Good trailer released with new songs and first glimpse of Dorothy

Wicked: For Good releases in theatres on 21 November

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