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Leonardo DiCaprio was joking about wanting to go to Mars as soon as possible
Leonardo DiCaprio has achieved so much as an actor on earth, you might think he's getting a little bored of life on the planet.Well, he teased a certain interest in Mars recently, but it looks like he...
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Massive dust storms could threaten plans to colonize Mars and save humanity —...
If you've seen "The Martian," you might remember the violent dust storm that kicked off the movie. It was the one that pummeled the crew with 105 mph winds, struck Matt Damon's character with a rogue...
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Boeing says it will beat SpaceX to Mars
Less than a week after SpaceX founder Elon Musk detailed his vision to get people to Mars, a rival aerospace company has intimated that it plans to beat Musk (and everyone else) to the punch.However,...
View ArticleHere's how Boeing plans to beat SpaceX by landing the first humans on Mars
The CEO of Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, recently announced, "I'm convinced that the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding on a Boeing rocket."It's a bold claim, but Boeing has some...
View ArticleNASA is offering a $500,000 prize to the first who can grow human organ tissue
NASA is challenging teams to create thick, metabolically-functional human vascularized organ tissue in a controlled lab setting. It's called the Vascular Tissue Challenge, and the first three teams to...
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Yao Ming and 10 other Chinese celebrities were just named 'Ambassadors to Mars'
China has appointed retired basketball star Yao Ming and 10 other celebrities as “Ambassadors to Mars” to promote the nation’s first mission to Mars in 2020.The other celebrities who will become...
View ArticleNASA just released hundreds of stunning new images of Mars — here are some of...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes stunning photos of the Martian surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. These spectacular images give scientists clues about...
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Obama vows to help send people to Mars by the 2030s
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to work with private companies to "to build new habitats that can sustain and transport...
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Traveling to Mars might cause long-term brain damage
When it comes to planning manned missions to Mars, we’ve been so preoccupied with how to ferry humans 225 million km through the Solar System, that we might be missing a really serious problem — are we...
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Russia and Europe are about to land a robot on Mars
Cross your fingers for good weather on the Red Planet on October 19.That's the day the European Space Agency's Schiaparelli lander pops open its parachute, fires nine, liquid-fueled thrusters and...
View ArticleEurope and Russia are about to make history by landing a spacecraft on Mars
The European-led Mars lander is approaching the Red Planet as part of the ExoMars mission between the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos.The lander will be searching for signs of alien life...
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The fate of Europe's Mars lander is unknown — watch live as a crucial signal...
Update: The Schiaparelli lander may have crashed. Read our full story here.If all went well around 10:48 a.m. EDT Wednesday, a joint European-Russian probe called the Schiaparelli lander safely plopped...
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Europe's Mars lander may have crashed into the robot graveyard that is the...
"Somewhere within this frame, there is a new robot on Mars," science journalist Corey Powell quipped on Twitter.The question, however, is whether the spacecraft is intact and struggling to make contact...
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European Space Agency: Experimental probe crash-landed and may have exploded...
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says its experimental Mars probe crash-landed and may have exploded when it hit the surface of the red planet Wednesday.NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has...
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Europe's lost Mars lander probably 'exploded on impact' — see the photos
When the European Space Agency (ESA) lost contact with its Schiaparelli lander on October 19, the probe was headed toward its doom: a 60-second free-fall that ended in an explosion — and a new crater...
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Elon Musk says Mars colonists will live in giant glass domes and use mining...
The first Martian colonists will live in giant glass domes and using mining robots to help expand their homes if Elon Musk gets his way.The SpaceX founder did a question-and-answer "AMA" session on...
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Elon Musk just shared his ambitious 4-step plan for colonizing Mars with a...
Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually ruins Earth. And he wants it to be somewhat affordable — $200,000 or less per person.To that end,...
View ArticleOur goal of finding life on Mars could be jeopardized if we send humans to...
"We have perhaps two more decades before the inevitable contamination of Mars." That's a quote from Emily Lakdawalla, senior editor of The Planetary Society in a Washington Post article. Our microbes...
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A depressing new photo shows the smoking crater left by a European spacecraft...
One-half of Europe's ambitious mission to Mars not only crashed into red dirt, but exploded upon impact and left a crater as wide as a car.That's the depressing conclusion of the European Space Agency...
View ArticleNASA’s rover just discovered a rare, metal rock on Mars
It's not everyday that you find a space rock on Mars. But that's exactly what NASA's Curiosity rover discovered on Oct. 27. The rock looks completely different from its surroundings because it's made...
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