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UAE’s Mars mission captures stunning images of Red Planet’s tiny moon

The United Arab Emirates' Amal spacecraft flew within 100 km of Deimos.

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Inside Mars Dune Alpha, NASA’s martian simulation habitat

A four-person crew will spend a year inside NASA’s Mars simulation habitat to test how they react to conditions on the Red Planet.

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Humans on the Moon and Mars could live in homes made from potatoes

Scientists have created a new building material from potato starch which, with a pinch of salt, could help build houses on the Moon and Mars.

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Humans on the Moon and Mars could live in homes 'grown' from mushrooms

With the help of NASA, architects are working on a prototype that uses a mixture of algae and fungi to "grow" houses on the Moon and Mars.

2 February 2023

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‘My power’s really low’: InSight lander says final farewell from Mars

The InSight lander made new discoveries about the makeup of Mars.

20 December 2022

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New study finds life could be dormant under Mars' surface

A new study has found that there’s a good chance we'll find life on Mars buried under the planet’s surface hundreds of millions of years ago.

28 October 2022

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NASA calls off second attempt at Moon rocket launch: What happened?

The uncrewed test flight - called off for a second time - aims to ensure NASA's new SLS rocket is capable of putting astronauts back on the Moon.

3 September 2022

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Could humans be calling this inflatable house home on the Red Planet?

The two artists behind the project have spent seven years building a house that’s more about living on Mars rather than just surviving.

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The Moon then Mars? NASA is readying itself to land humans by 2025

As a first step, the Artemis program will send an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the Moon with mannequins and torsos made of simulated human tissue onboard to test how the voyage will affect human beings.

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Europe cuts ties with Russia over Mars rover mission

The European Space Agency has officially terminated a joint European-Russian rover mission to Mars amid political tensions caused by the war in Ukraine.

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One giant leap for mankind on Mars by 2030? SpaceX thinks so

Elon Musk’s company has set itself the ambitious task to make space travel accessible for humanity.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover captures footage of solar eclipse on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured footage of Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, crossing the face of the sun on April 2, NASA said.

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Is this what astronauts will use to build colonies on the Moon?

If NASA adopts FLEX and its payload platform, it would become the first passenger-capable rover to ply the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in the 1970s.

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Astronauts train for life on Mars with rocks on Earth

The ESA’s Pangaea project is designed to equip astronauts with essential geology training so they can execute manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

14 December 2021

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NASA’s 10 new astronauts could one day walk on the Moon or Mars

NASA has revealed its latest cohort of astronauts. The six men and four women could be picked for upcoming missions to the Moon or Mars.

7 December 2021

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Astronauts settle into their Martian base camp on Earth

A mock base camp in the Israeli desert is hosting a month-long simulation for what it could be like to live on Mars.

23 October 2021

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How Europe is planning to send the first woman to the Moon

The ESA-NASA collaboration will develop a vital part of the Orion spacecraft which will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024.

21 October 2021

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In the Israeli desert, astronauts simulate "life on Mars"

Equipped with space suits, astronauts advance with heavy steps towards a Martian station erected in a crater in Israel.

10 October 2021

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Tech this week: A lake on Mars confirmed and a 90 year-old in space

William Shatner brings Star Trek to life with space trip and are we closer to knowing about life on Mars?

10 October 2021

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover takes important step in hunt for alien life

NASA’s Perseverance Rover took its first Mars rock sample last week and it could be key to discovering if there has ever been life on Mars.

8 September 2021