Life on Mars

NASA’s InSight lander is winning the battle to free its stuck drill

Most significant science new and breakthroughs of 2018

The next challenge for getting to Mars: What happens to the human body in space

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ExoMars mission delay means no launch until at least 2022

ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover

Curiosity conquers a 30-degree slope on Mars for the first time, enjoys the view

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See Mars’ Moreux crater in new images from Mars Express

Known for its wide swathes of rippling, textured, gently sloping dunes, Mars’ Terra Sabaea region is home to many fascinating geological features – including the prominent Moreux crater, the star of a new image from ESA’s Mars Express.

This 1.8 billion-pixel photo of Mars took the Curiosity rover 4 days to shoot

Curiosity Rover

The Mars 2020 rover officially has a name: Perseverance

A rendering of Mars 2020 rover, to be launched on its journey to Mars next year.

NASA to announce Mars 2020 rover name, here’s how to watch

Mars 2020 rover

Mars could once have hosted oceans and life, study of meteorite crater shows

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Mars is covered in dust devils and has strange magnetic pulses, InSight reveals

Mars Mission In this artist's concept of NASA's InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet's subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen in the background.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking a two-week vacation

This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter over the red planet.

Brave InSight Lander doing its best to free stuck heat probe from Martian soil

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Mars’ moons: Japan’s space agency preps pioneering mission

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Mars Express image shows the boundary between the planet’s hemispheres

Mars is very much a world of two halves – as highlighted by this new image from ESA’s Mars Express, which shows where the planet’s dramatically different hemispheres come together as one.

Mars 2020 rover leaves home on 2,300-mile journey to Florida for launch

A rendering of Mars 2020 rover, to be launched on its journey to Mars next year.

NASA’s newest Deep Space Network antenna will receive laser signals from Mars

Deep Space Network This artist's concept shows what Deep Space Station-23, a new antenna dish capable of supporting both radio wave and laser communications, will look like when completed at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone, California, complex.

Why the Mars 2020 rover is armed with a high-powered laser

Mars 2020's mast, or "head," includes a laser instrument called SuperCam that can vaporize rock material and study the resulting plasma.

The red planet looks almost Earth-like in the detailed maps of the Mars Atlas 

The Mars Atlas Book Kickstarter

Changes in Mars’ atmosphere are driven by enormous CO2 ice cap at its pole

The Martian pole

Digital Trends Live: Apple Maps returns, Super Bowl coverage, and more

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Curiosity rover adjusts its attitude to its Martian surroundings

Curiosity Rover

Digital Trends Live: Bezos hacked, Mars 2020 rover naming finalists, and more

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NASA reveals 9 finalists in Mars 2020 rover naming contest. Cast your vote

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Europe’s ExoMars rover completes environmental tests ahead of launch this year

ExoMars Rover in Thermal Vaccum Testing

Moon rooms made of mushrooms could be the future of space habitat

Bricks made of mushrooms

Check out the short list in the Mars 2020 rover naming contest

A rendering of Mars 2020 rover, to be launched on its journey to Mars next year.

Digital Trends Live: Samsung’s S20 line, Oscar noms, prepping for Mars

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See ripples of dust and ice on Mars’ northern polar cap

Part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole

Mars’ water is evaporating away even faster than we expected

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Exoplanets with high-oxygen atmospheres are more likely than we thought

This is an artist’s impression of habitable Mars

Digital Trends Live: Wyze data leak, YouTube limits on young creators, and more

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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will search for evidence of ancient life on red planet

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

Ten years in space: Remembering a decade of achievements in the final frontier

See ExoMars rover’s parachutes deploy at 125 mph ahead of its landing on Mars

Exomars 2020

Mars has auroras of its own, which could explain why the planet lost its water

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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover passes first driving test with flying colors

Mars 2020 rover

NASA simulates the clouds on Mars using a supercomputer

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Mars’s strange equatorial terrain could have formed under an ice sheet

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Global storms on Mars shoot towers of dust 50 miles into the sky

NASA scientists train to spot Martian fossils in the Australian Outback

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Meet the robotic pioneers that will help humanity colonize Mars

A rendering of Mars 2020 rover, to be launched on its journey to Mars next year.

Curiosity rover discovers a puzzling oxygen mystery on Mars

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Mars 2020 mission will search for fossils in the Jezero Crater

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Curiosity captures eerie images of lonely Martian landscape

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See the Mars 2020 rover winched into the air and moved into a test chamber

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Astronaut smart glove controls drones wirelessly, could be used to explore Mars

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Mars 2020 rover stands on its own wheels for the first time

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Multitalented Curiosity rover snaps a selfie, performs a chemistry experiment

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NASA plans to cut cost of space exploration by commercializing low-earth orbit

The Artemis 1 Orion Crew Module.

Report calls for changes to rules about contamination of other worlds

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