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Was the Red Planet once blue? New evidence points to an ancient ocean on Mars

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Space

NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien life.

LiveScience

How Mars' ancient lakes grew shields of ice to stay warm as the Red Planet froze

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

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Experts push back against cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could potentially find evidence of Red Planet life.

Space

Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."

Space

Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

Space

City-size 'cosmic butterfly' carved into Mars' surface contains traces of ancient water

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried Martian ice.

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NASA Is Stress-Testing Mars Tech in Earth's Harshest Deserts — And the Results Are Wild

NASA is stress-testing new Mars exploration tech in Earth's harshest deserts, revealing surprising insights into how future drones, robots and gliders could survive the Red Planet.

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1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs of life, report says

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies.

Space

Time travels faster on Mars than on Earth, and here's why

Measuring the time discrepancy between Earth and Mars will help make future navigation and communication systems on the Red Planet more accurate.

Space

Electric discovery on Mars! Scientists find tiny lightning bolts coming from Red Planet dust clouds

Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off the world's surface

Space

Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our neighboring world and likely crashed on Mars instead.

LiveScience

2 million black 'streaks' on Mars finally have an explanation, solving 50-year mystery

A new analysis of data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet's dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed.

LiveScience

25 Years Later, Val Kilmer's Sci-Fi Flop Is Better Than You Remember

Is the mars movie 'Red Planet' still worth your time? Here's why this one holds up better than you might think.

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Volcanic explosions on Mars may have left massive ice deposits at the Red Planet's equator

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, a new study finds.

Space

1,000 Mars dust devils! European orbiters track Red Planet's tiny tornadoes

Two decades of spacecraft images reveal more than 1,000 dust devils whipping across Mars at unexpected speeds, offering fresh insight into how wind and dust shape the Red Planet.

Space

European Mars orbiter spies interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming past Red Planet (photos)

A European Mars probe witnessed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' Red Planet flyby on Oct. 3, snapping imagery of the interloper from just 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away.

Space

'The metal detector has gone off': Perseverance rover's find is a shiny new clue in the search for life on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has found minerals that could have powered life on Mars — or simply shaped the Red Planet's environment in fascinating ways.

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Tumbleweed-inspired Mars rovers could be blown across the Red Planet

Scientists are testing prototypes of tumbleweed rovers in a wind tunnel that show that Mars' winds are strong enough to push them.

Space

Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.

Benzinga

Rocket Lab Pitches Mars Satellite As First Step To Keep Astronauts Mission-Ready Before They Set Foot On The Red Planet: 'Talk First, Land Later'

On Tuesday, Rocket Lab Corp. (NASDAQ:RKLB) positioned its Mars Telecommunications Orbiter as the critical first step in connecting astronauts with Earth, before humans ever set foot on the Red Planet.

LiveScience

Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside Mars may be the remnants of 'failed planets'

"Marsquake" data collected by NASA's InSight lander have revealed dozens of mysterious blobs within the Red Planet's mantle. The structures may have been left by powerful impacts up to 4.5 billion years ago.

Space

Blue Origin pitches new 'Mars Telecommunications Orbiter' for Red Planet missions (video)

Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, which the company says could aid future NASA missions to the Red Planet.

Space

What would Mars look like under an Earth-like blue sky? NASA's Perseverance rover just showed us

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a breathtaking panorama of the Red Planet surface depicted in false-color under a blue sky.

Space

SpaceX signs deal to fly Italian experiments to Mars on Starship's 1st commercial Red Planet flights

SpaceX has signed a deal with the Italian Space Agency to fly Italian experiments on the first commercial Starship missions to Mars.

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