After Mars and the Moon, now Venus: What is Isro’s Shukrayaan mission?
The Narendra Modi-led government has given the green light to ISRO’s Venus Orbiter Mission, known as Shukrayaan, scheduled ...
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‘Life on Mars?’ Is More Than a David Bowie Song—It’s a Question Humans Keep Asking
Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...
Whoopsie, NASA Might Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...
Making Mars's moons: Supercomputers offer 'disruptive' new explanation
A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: ...
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NASA May Have Inadvertently Killed Life on Mars, Scientist Says
According to astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University Berlin in Germany, an experiment to detect the ...
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China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean
Since Zhurong landed in 2021 — in one of the largest and oldest impact basins on ... China recently announced it has advanced ...
It's Red Planet Day! History, Significance And Must Know Facts About Mars
It's Mars Day! November 28 is celebrated as Red Planet Day, dedicated to honoring Mars, our fascinating planetary neighbour.
A NASA lander may have killed life on Mars, scientist claims — and colleagues took his theory ‘surprisingly well’
Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...
Is life on Mars destroyed? NASA's Viking mission new hypothesis challenges 50-year-old findings
NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...
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Did NASA's Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren't so sure
A groundbreaking find on Mars sparks debate among scientists — could these organic molecules be a clue to life on the Red ...
The new Mars landing approach: How we'll land large payloads on the Red Planet
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...
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Artemis III: SpaceX’s Starship HLS renders reveal a lunar base like no other
SpaceX's Starship HLS will be a lunar base for Artemis III astronauts, allowing for longer stays and more exploration.