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The GoMars project is attempting something planetary scientists have wanted for decades: a continuous, high fidelity ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover will go dark for a few weeks due to a conjunction between Earth and Mars, blocking communication between the two planets.

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

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US space policy shifts focus to the Moon as a new executive order backs the Artemis program, sets lunar timelines, and delays near-term Mars missions ...

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Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.