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Want to Protect Earth from Aliens? NASA Is Hiring

August 02, 2017 | Article

NASA is looking to hire a planetary protection officer, a person who will lead the agency's efforts to keep its spacecraft from contaminating worlds with life-forms that don't belong there.
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Weird 'Rocks' at Robotics Test Site Turn Out to Be Dinosaur Fossils

July 31, 2017 | Article

Students searching for a Mars-like landscape in a Canadian park took an unexpected detour into paleontology.
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Future Space Colony? Maybe We Should Look Beyond Mars to Saturn's Titan Moon

July 19, 2017 | Article

Instead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years.
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No, Congressman, There's No Evidence of an Ancient Mars Civilization

July 18, 2017 | Article

In case you were wondering, there's no evidence that Mars hosted an alien civilization thousands of years ago, or at any time, for that matter.
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NASA Awards $100,000 in 3D-Printing Habitat Competition

May 16, 2017 | Article

The first printing segment of NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is now complete, and the U.S. space agency has awarded $100,000 to the winning two teams.
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The Search for Life on Mars Is About to Get Weird

May 16, 2017 | Article

Astrobiologists ponder sending gene sequencers, weather stations, drilling rigs and more to the Red Planet
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Make Mars Livable with Asteroids: Researchers Propose Terraforming Plan

April 25, 2017 | Article

A new plan for the "terraformation" of Mars has been scripted by a research team – a blueprint for the red planet to terraform a site on Mars in 2036.
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The First Mars Colony Could Be 3D Printed From Red Planet Dust

April 14, 2017 | Article

A new method could mix dust from the moon or Mars with a series of solvents to create flexible, tough 3D-printed tools.
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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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