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Astronaut Chris Hadfield says the rockets from NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin...
Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, recently spoke to Business Insider about his new online course on space exploration.Of the future space vehicles of NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin, Hadfield said, "I...
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NASA's nuclear-powered Mars rover took an amazing selfie during an intense...
Scientists say a global dust storm on Mars is the thickest and darkest they've ever seen.NASA's Opportunity rover, which runs on solar power, went into safe mode because the sky is so dark.The...
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Elon Musk says a new study about aliens gives humans even more reason to...
Elon Musk says we need to colonize space because we may be the only intelligent civilization.His comments were inspired by a draft study from Oxford University researchers that looks at the Drake...
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Buzz Aldrin, who walked on the moon, wants the lunar surface to become a...
Buzz Aldrin, the second person to step foot on the moon, wants humans to go back to the lunar surface.But this time, Aldrin told Business Insider, he envisions the moon as a launch pad for missions to...
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NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is celebrating its 15th birthday with a nap...
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to last just 90 Martian sols, or 92 Earth days. But the scrappy machine shocked engineers by lasting far longer than that. The rover is now celebrating 15 years...
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NASA may have accidentally burned evidence of life on Mars almost 50 years ago
During the 1970s, the Viking probe went to Mars and found no evidence of any organic matter.Yet NASA recently announced its Curiosity rover had discovered complex organic molecules on the surface of...
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Mars will come closer to Earth in the next week than it has been in 15 years...
Mars will be at its closest point to our planet in 15 years over the next week, making for some prime nighttime viewing.That's because of a phenomenon called perihelic opposition, in which Earth's and...
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Scientists may have just found a lake of liquid water on Mars
Scientists from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Bologna may have found a lake of liquid water on Mars. Satellite data suggests the water might lie underneath the surface of a polar ice...
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NASA just quashed Elon Musk's plans to make Mars habitable for humans
A NASA-sponsored study found there's not enough carbon dioxide on Mars to deliberately modify the planet's atmosphere (known as terraforming).This means terraforming isn't a viable option to make the...
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NASA asked experts to design human habitats for future manned missions to...
NASA is soliciting expert designs for a potential manned mission to Mars— and beyond.As part of the space agency's $2.5 million Centennial Challenge, teams of designers, engineers, and architects from...
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If humans are ever going to live on Mars, we'll have to grow food — here's...
Once humans do make it to Mars, a major challenge for any colony will be to generate a stable supply of food.Humans on Mars will need to move away from complete reliance on shipped cargo, and achieve a...
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The world's largest pet food manufacturer is backing a controversial startup...
An animal-free pet food startup called Wild Earth recently scored $450,000 from tech mogul Peter Thiel and backing from Mars Veterinary, the world's biggest pet food maker.The company's current...
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NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 6 years now — here's what...
The surface of Mars is weird and beautiful.For six years now, since its landing on August 5, 2012, the Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring one area of our next-planet neighbor.Curiosity has spent...
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SpaceX is quietly planning Mars-landing missions with the help of NASA and...
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is building a rocket-and-spaceship system to land people on Mars.Musk said he wants to launch the first humans to Mars in 2024, following an uncrewed mission in 2022.As...
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Here are all the drinks bartenders would take with them to Mars 'for shots to...
If bartenders had one-way tickets to Mars, it's likely they would pack plenty of booze for space. Robb Report asked their favorite bartenders and mixologists what they would drink on Mars, which...
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NASA's longest-lived robot on Mars isn't calling home. Here's why there's a...
A global dust storm has been raging on Mars since June.The Opportunity rover began hibernating on June 10th to wait out the storm, but it has yet to wake up and call NASA.If the robot can't get enough...
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A top SpaceX engineer has revealed new details — and questions — about the...
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, wants to build cities on Mars. SpaceX is developing a system called the Big Falcon Rocket to reach the red planet as soon as 2022.A recent presentation by SpaceX's...
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A venture capitalist and former Obama official are giving startups $30...
FoodShot Global is a new fund for researchers and startups who are solving problems in food and agriculture that stem from soil degradation.Venture capitalist Victor Friedberg, former...
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Elon Musk is building a spaceship that's so ambitious that some experts are...
Elon Musk plans to blast a tourist around the moon in a ship made by his rocket company, SpaceX.The private lunar mission is meant to demonstrate a new two-part launch system called Big Falcon Rocket,...
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These pictures show the exact hill NASA's longest-lived Mars robot may die upon
A dust storm that enveloped Mars for nearly 100 days is finally clearing up.NASA's Opportunity rover slept through the storm to keep its batteries charged, but the robot has yet to wake up and contact...
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