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Want to own a huge chunk of Mars? It'll likely cost you up to $4 million
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured
Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
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Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...
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Ancient Riverbeds on Mars Suggest Red Planet Was Wetter and More Complex Than Previously Thought
Researchers examining Noachis Terra in Mars’ southern highlands found evidence of extensive river networks – some hundreds of ...
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The first Mars close-up
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
A Rare Space Rock From a Different Planet Is for Sale—and Bidders Are Expected to Pay Millions
A meteorite is a meteoroid that "survives" a trip through Earth's atmosphere and lands fully intact, according to NASA. The ...
Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied planet, scientists say
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
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NASA finally figures out what’s up with those “Mars spiders”
For years, satellites around Mars have been finding mysterious, spider-like geological structures. Mars spiders, ...