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Mars Rover Spots Complex Carbon on the Red Planet, Marking Yet Another Detection of a Building Block of Life

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...
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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission ...
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DLR’s Moon-Mars test site advances planetary robotics

On 26 September 2023, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) inaugurated its Moon-Mars Test Site at the Robotics and Mechatronics ...

Scientists find evidence of vast hidden magma systems inside Mars

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...
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Mars orbiter watches Perseverance cross the finish line | Space photo of the day for June 29, 2026

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft ...

Mars in near real-time - stunning time-lapse and color pic marks European probe's 20th anniversary

The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

Perseverance Has Officially 'Run' a Marathon on Mars

NASA has announced yet another milestone for the Perseverance rover: It's officially traversed the length of a marathon on ...

Getting to Mars may require a pit stop in orbit, and NASA just tested the nozzle to make that happen

NASA just tested a fully automated refueling coupler for spacecraft, and if it works, it could fundamentally change how deep ...