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Exploring extremes in the search for life on Mars

MARS
People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. However,...

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

MARS
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars,...

A NASA rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilized life on Mars

ASTRONOMY
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for...

Mars rover continues progress along upper Gediz Vallis ridge

ASTRONOMY
Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of...

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth

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NASA's plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there's a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving...

Mars attracts: How Earth’s interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea circulation

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Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the...

Curiosity rover searches for new clues about Mars’ ancient water

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for...

Water persisted in Mars’ Gale crater for longer than previously thought, study finds

MARS
Billions of years ago, Mars was home to abundant water, and its Gale crater contained a lake. Gradually, the climate changed, drying the red...

One impact on Mars produced more than 2 billion secondary craters, finds study

ASTRONOMY
There are plenty of craters on Mars, especially when compared to Earth. That is primarily thanks to the lack of weathering forces and strong...

Giant volcano discovered on Mars

ASTRONOMY
In a groundbreaking announcement at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a giant...

Mars had its own version of plate tectonics

MARS
Plate tectonics is not something most people would associate with Mars. In fact, the planet's dead core is one of the primary reasons for...

Little groundwater recharge in ancient Mars aquifer, according to new models

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Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the surface—from river deltas to...
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