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165,000 Apply for Mission to Colonise Mars 23 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
A one-way ticket to another planet where there is no air, no water or food – and certainly no return home – may not sound like a lot of fun, but to 165,000 people the opportunity to live permanently o...
The Deep-Space Suit 23 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
For human beings to push farther into the solar system—to an asteroid, to a Martian moon, or even to Mars itself—they will need a new space suit: one that will allow them to travel through deep space,...
Mars rover Opportunity reaches campsite for Martian winter 23 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover has reached the site where it will wait out its sixth Red Planet winter. Opportunity — which touched down on Mars in January 2004 just after its twin, Spirit,...
No, Mars Won’t Be as Big as the Moon. Ever. 23 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Every year in August, somewhere, somehow, this silly claim springs from the cold, dead ground, rising once again to shamble across the Internet. The first time it was just a mistake, but ever since th...
Curiosity captures footage of a Martian moon eclipse 20 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
As Curiosity continues to trek across the wild red yonder of Mars, it stopped for a moment earlier this month to observe the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, passing by each other in the night sk...
Student Contest Launches to Aid Private Manned Mission to Mars 19 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
A private manned Mars mission may get some help from students on its way to the launch pad in 2018. A newly announced contest asks students to propose design concepts for the Inspiration Mars mission...
LIVE VIDEO: The Mars Society Conference 15 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
The Mars Society will be hosting its 16th Annual International Mars Society Convention from August 15-18 at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The organization is pleased to announce that all plen...
Mars food study researchers emerge from dome 15 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
Researchers who have spent nearly four months simulating what it's like to live on Mars have emerged from their experiment on a barren Hawaii lava field. The NASA-funded study is researching what food...
NASA researchers simulate life on Mars, study astronaut meals 13 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
Researchers who have spent nearly four months simulating what it’s like to live on Mars are emerging from their experiment on a barren Hawaii lava field. The NASA-funded study is researching what foo...
Scientists make ‘impossible material’ … by accident 13 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
Researchers in Uppsala, Sweden accidentally left a reaction running over the weekend and ended up resolving a century-old chemistry problem. Their work has led to the development of a new material, du...
