False fossils could hamper search for life on Mars
Chemical processes could mimic signs of extraterrestrial life, study says.
If you’re an interplanetary alien hunter scouring the red expanses of Mars for signs of life, you’re more likely to c...
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How to manage a mission to Mars
As principal investigator of NASA’s Insight Mars Lander, Bruce Banerdt gets to fulfil a lifelong ...
Bruce Banerdt has the job he’s been dreaming of since he was a child growing up in the California desert, watching Ne...
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How to grow plants on Mars
Researchers find innovative way to improve Martian soil for the cultivation of future colonising ...
If we ever want to move to Mars, we’ll need to learn how to grow food right there on the Red Planet. But the soil the...
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Perseverance breathes fresh life into the mining and space sectors
Mars Rover Perseverance’s CO2-splitting MOXIE device draws the eye of the world’s biggest miners.
When it comes to combining space ingenuity with mining pragmatism, all it takes is a little moxie.Woodside Energy...
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China releases first sounds of Zhurong’s Mars mission
Audio of the rover’s descent to Mars captured by its attached climate station.
The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) has released the first sounds and new video recorded by its Mars rov...
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Icy Mars lakes
Briny lakes found under the Martian ice cap.
Scientists using ground-penetrating radar have discovered a cluster of lakes beneath the Martian south polar ice cap....
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Cooper Creek looks like Mars
The distinctive path is similar to what’s seen on Mars.
Red-tinted sands and dark green braided streams provide a colourful contrast within Queensland's Channel Country. As ...
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Ancient water reservoirs inside Mars
Meteorites tell story of Red Planet’s early history.
Mars’s mantle may contain multiple distinct reservoirs of mineral-bound water preserved from the planet’s early histo...
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Pilbara rocks hold clues to life on Mars
Learning the secrets of our ancient rocks.
NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have spent a week in the remote outback of Australia for specialist t...
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Martian brines might sustain life, study finds
Higher-than-expected oxygen levels could support microbes and more complex organisms – maybe. Ric...
Martian groundwater could contain enough oxygen to support aerobic life, including simple animals such as sponges, sc...
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Search for Martian life switches to English seaside
Extremophile action in an acidic stream may be an analogue for extinct Martian microbes. Andrew M...
Famous for its lush green valleys and quaint villages, the English county of Dorset – home once to the great novelist...
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Portable sequencer prepped for Mars life mission
Canadian researchers trial handheld DNA tech in proof-of-concept for detecting life on other plan...
The Red Planet is enjoying a surge in popularity, thanks to the recent television series Mars, by director Ron Howard...