NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program Can’t Afford Another Reset From the Next President
An Armchair Astronaut’s Guide to the ExoMars Launch
The 12 Greatest Challenges for Space Exploration
From space madness to crash landings, here's how we'll beat the 13 most difficult challenges to space exploration.
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Mars Could One Day Have a Ring Made of Broken-Up Moon Bits
Phobos is gradually spiraling in closer to Mars, getting ready to self-destruct. And when it does, its remains will give the red planet a brand-new ring.
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Newest Mars Probe Reveals Clues to the Planet’s Watery Past
MAVEN is a spacecraft on a mission to find out what happened to the red planet's lost water, atmosphere, and magnetic field.
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How Would Football Work if You Played It on Mars?
When humans bring the gridiron to Mars, it'll be football, Jim---but not as we know it.
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How to Get to Mars … And Maybe Even Live There
We've long dreamed of visiting the Red Planet. Here's what that trajectory might look like, from the fictional world of 'The Martian' to the technology we still have to develop.
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Watch: The Streaks That Gave Away Mars’ Liquid Water
Long streaks on Mars' steep slopes were formed by flowing water.
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NASA Discovers Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars
NASA scientists have found compelling evidence that liquid water—life-giving, gloriously wet water—exists on Mars.
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SETI’s Top Astrobiologist Has a Plan to Find Life on Mars
Nathalie Cabrol just took the reins of the Carl Sagan Center at the extraterrestrial search organization. And she has some big ideas about where it's going.
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