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Europe awaits confirmation of Mars landing

Mission controllers were anxiously awaiting confirmation Wednesday that a tiny European craft had landed on Mars as part of an ambitious quest with Russia to find evidence of life on the Red Planet.

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Europe awaits confirmation of Mars landing

​Mission controllers were anxiously awaiting confirmation Wednesday that a tiny European craft had landed on Mars as part of an ambitious quest with Russia to find evidence of life on the Red Planet.

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Game On! Boeing wants to beat SpaceX in the race to Mars

SpaceX may not be the first to send humans to Mars because Boeing's CEO wants to beat Elon Musk in the race to the red planet. But how will Boeing do it?

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Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision

Mr Musk, who founded private spaceflight company SpaceX, was speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday.

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New fossils show that life on Earth is at least 3.7 billion years old

Life on Earth is even older than we thought, said Australian scientists on Thursday (Sept 1) as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.

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China unveils Mars probe, rover for ambitious 2020 mission

China on Tuesday released images of a Mars probe and rover which the country plans to send to the Red Planet within five years.

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NASA says ready to build Mars 2020 rover

U.S. space agency NASA said Friday it's ready to begin final design and construction of its next Mars rover, which is set to look for evidence of past life on the Red Planet.

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NASA plans to fix Mars spacecraft leak then launch in 2018

NASA plans to repair a Mars spacecraft that was grounded in December because of a leak in its primary science instrument, putting the mission back on track for another launch attempt in 2018, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.

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NASA finds "strong" evidence for liquid water on Mars

​U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars.

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Buried glaciers on Mars have enough water to cover entire planet: study

​Glaciers hidden under Mars' surface dust may have surprisingly lots of water that is enough to cover the entire planet, new research has found.

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Countdown to China's new space programs begins

China hopes to put a rover on Mars around 2020, complete a manned space station around 2022 and test a heavy carrier rocket around 2030, a top space scientist revealed Sunday.

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Mars comet flyby has likely created "impressive meteor shower"

Comet Siding Spring may have created "an impressive meteor shower" that altered the upper atmosphere's chemistry of Mars for hours as it whizzed past the Red Planet last month, U.S. space agency NASA said Friday.

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India successfully reaches Mars in first attempt

​India Wednesday scripted history by becoming the world's first country to reach Mars in its maiden attempt.

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India successfully reaches Mars on maiden attempt

​India on Wednesday became the first nation to have successfully reached Mars on its maiden attempt, a historic feat for the country's indigenous space program.

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Mars One selects Lockheed Martin, SSTL to study first private Mars mission

Under the plan, Lockheed Martin will design the Mars One lander, which will be based on the successful 2007 Phoenix mission spacecraft the company designed, built, tested and operated for U. S. space agency NASA.

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NASA to launch spacecraft to explore Martian atmosphere

U.S. space agency NASA said Monday its spacecraft that will examine the upper atmosphere of Mars "in unprecedented detail" is undergoing final preparations for a November launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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U.S. researchers calculate radiation exposure of Mars mission

U.S. researchers have made detailed measurements of the radiation hazards associated with a trip that's long been the subject of science fiction: a manned mission to Mars.