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A pair of new studies presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for Planetary ...

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A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

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Strange blobs detected deep within Mars by NASA’s InSight lander may be remnants of the planet’s earliest “embryo,” according to a new study that could reshape our understanding of how rocky planets ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected compelling evidence of potential past life on Mars within Jezero Crater. The rover's ...

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While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Elon Musk envisions a self-sustaining Mars settlement within 30 years, hinging on SpaceX's Starship and its heavy-lift ...

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