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What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet? Scientists have some new ideas

Mars is known as the "Red" Planet, but what actually makes it red? New research offers answers.

Space

Sports Team: ‘They pointed the gun at our tour manager... we took cover’

INTERVIEW: Fresh from a too-close experience of armed robbery in the US, the flamboyant indie band tell Mark Beaumont about their new album, America as the new Roman empire, and being on Louis Tomlinson’s mood board

The Independent UK

Mars once had an ocean with sandy beaches, researchers say

China’s Zhurong rover finds evidence of shoreline buried deep underground

The Guardian - UK

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Scientists have discovered a 3 billion-year-old beach buried on Mars

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet.

The Conversation

Alien life might have flourished in ‘vacation-style beaches’ on Mars, scientists say

Red Planet may have supported alien life for tens of millions of years, scientists say

The Independent UK

Swimming robots, fusion satellites and more! New NASA-funded studies could someday 'change the possible'

NASA has awarded funds to 15 trailblazing concepts for space technology that could help us explore and inhabit the solar system.

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 149 — SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids?

On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans in the Bahamas, and the debate surrounding the International Space Station.

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Trump could re-prioritize the US’s space goals to keep Elon Musk happy

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has called the moon a ‘distraction’ and signaled a shift toward Mars

The Independent UK

Why does SpaceX founder Elon Musk want to deorbit the ISS?

The billionaire’s company was awarded more than $840 million by NASA to develop the deorbit vehicle

The Independent UK

Elon Musk Urges Early Deorbiting Of International Space Station

Elon Musk's proposal to deorbit the ISS sooner sparks debate on its utility and impact on future Mars missions.

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7 Planets Will Align Soon – It Could Spell Trouble For Bitcoin, Astrologers Say

Seven planets will align Friday next week, and while it will undoubtedly be a mesmerizing sight for stargazers, it may not be the best period for Bitcoin, the world's unchallenged crypto king.

International Business Times

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A boy with his head in the clouds; a Kurdish refugee’s tale; helicopter heists, a dancer’s dreams, a mission to save Mars and more

The Guardian - UK

Moon Or Mars? NASA's Future At A Crossroads Under Trump

Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?

International Business Times

The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars'

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images)

Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.

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"Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta

An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

The Independent UK

Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison

PC Gamer

When asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot's co-founder replies: 'Oh yeah,' but don't get too excited, the ETA is 'before we go to Mars'

"It's probably the project I personally spend the most time on as well."

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Relic's new project is a 'smaller indie-style' game about a martian invasion of Earth

Earth vs. Mars is expected to be out this summer.

The Conversation

Life on Mars? It probably looks like something you’d find in your stomach

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours is the only planet capable of supporting life, and it seems to have arisen in the form of something like today’s single-celled prokaryotic organisms.

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie says ‘dishonest’ Elon Musk should be fired into space: ‘If he likes it so much, let him go’

‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author

The Conversation

A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from extraterrestrial sources. Studies of ancient terrestrial rocks suggest liquid water existed on Earth as early as 100 million years after the Sun’s formation–practically “immediately” on an astrophysical timescale.…

Space

The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the Gemini Twins, Pollux and Castor.

LiveScience

NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.

A Week on the Wrist with the Bell & Ross Astro – beauty in the brutalism

The Bell & Ross Astro fuses a stunning dial with the brand's characteristic case shape.

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