Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
Discovering Hidden Water Reservoirs on the Moon
Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...
Elon Musk demands investigation into the strange square formation on Mars: “We should send astronauts to Mars to investigate!”
A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...
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Perseverance Mars rover finds 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on Red Planet's Silver Mountain
The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's ...
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To Find Life on Mars, Make Microbes Wiggle
“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
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Scientists working to get Russia to Mars first — engineer
Winner of a presidential award Natalya Cherkashina said that her research was aimed at developing radiation shielding composites to protect cosmonauts and electronic equipment during long orbital flig ...