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Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life

April 07, 2017 | Article

New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'll Fly to Mars with SpaceX, After Elon Musk Sends His Mom

April 04, 2017 | Article

Neil deGrasse Tyson is willing to fly to Mars with SpaceX, as long as company founder and CEO Elon Musk meets a few key conditions.
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NASA Mars Probe Completes 50,000th Red Planet Orbit

March 31, 2017 | Article

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has now circled the Red Planet 50,000 times.
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Mars Volcano Died at Same Time As Dinosaurs

March 21, 2017 | Article

Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned.
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US-Sized Dust Storms Seen on Mars

March 16, 2017 | Article

Two large dust storms in two weeks, each spanning an area larger than the United States, have researchers pondering the atmospheric dynamics on Mars.
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How Urine Could Help Astronauts Grow Food in Space

March 14, 2017 | Article

Scientists are growing tomatoes in urine to feed future Mars astronauts.
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Mars Colonists Might Need to Radically Alter Their Bodies and Minds

March 12, 2017 | Article

Training in Antarctica or on the International Space Station won't provide adequate preparation for human settlement on Mars, according to new research.
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'Listening To The Planets' To Understand Our Changing Climate | Video

February 06, 2017 | Video

Astrobiologist and author David Grinspoon has been a student of the planets his entire life. He talks to Space.com's @SteveSpaleta about what we can learn about Earth from studying our solar system’s planets.
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Early Meteorite Bits Reveal Clues About Solar System's Evolution

January 25, 2017 | Article

Many meteorites found on Earth are remnants of one titanic solar-system collision that took place more than 460 million years ago. But researchers have found the composition of space rocks before then are quite different than those today.
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Weird Mars Rock Spied by Curiosity Rover Is Probably a Meteorite

January 18, 2017 | Article

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has stumbled onto another rock that likely fell from space.
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