Mars

‘Hole On Mars’ Is The Latest Cave For Astronauts To Live In

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

“The Little Pit” image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This image of a small hole on the surface of Mars is ...

Could this plant make Mars habitable? Desert moss found in Tibet that can survive freezing temperatures and lethal cosmic rays could help terraform the Red Planet, study says

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are both planning to put humans on Mars in the next 20 years – but a key hurdle ...

How NASA InSight’s Seismic Data Is Rewriting Martian History

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recent findings from the InSight mission reveal that Mars experiences 280 to 360 significant meteorite impacts annually, far exceeding previous estimates based ...

Accident alert! NASA captures image of ‘space potato’ on a collision course with Mars | See photo

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

One of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, is on its path to collide with the giant Red Planet. The National Aeronautics ...

Can astronauts’ bodies actually survive Mars missions?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

As the likes of Elon Musk continue to promote their grand plans to one day send humans to Mars, new research suggests ...

‘Impossible’ Discovery Of Frost Near Equator

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This image shows Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire Solar System. … [+] The volcano ...

Elon Musk hails ‘epic achievement’ as Starship returns to Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Elon Musk’s Starship has successfully returned to Earth for the first time, completing its fourth mission and several critical tests before splashing ...

NASA Mars Rover Picks Up Pet Rock Named ‘Dwayne’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped a view of one of its rear wheels with a rock inside it on May … [+] ...

A ‘parade of planets’ will appear in the night sky TOMORROW – here’s how you can see the six distant worlds align

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Just before dawn from May 31 to June 3, a parade of six planets from our solar system will come into alignment ...

Astronomers Aim To Look For Terraformed ‘Snowball’ Earths

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Illustration of the Earth, with the continents in their present form, but with the planet completely … [+] iced over. The snowball ...