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Elon Musk, a well-known advocate for sending humans to Mars, has explained why it's 'incredibly important' to make the planet ...

NASA employees who would typically be in the know about such plans, however, were left in the dark about a potential push to Mars, a senior official told ... has always been committed to challenge and ...

The debate about Martian life, however, won't be settled anytime soon. NASA's Mars Sample Return mission ... cigar-sized titanium tubes. Plans won't be finalized until 2026, and it's unlikely ...

The issues may be sorted out through modifications to the remaining Block 2 ships; they may inform better design choices in ...

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

The findings could settle an “intense debate” over ... for extant life in Mars’ subsurface,” declared study author Andrea Butturini of the University of Barcelona. NASA, ESA, Maryland ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered ... the next big step" to bring samples from Mars back to Earth in order to "settle the debate about life on Mars." "The findings reported ...

NASA has been working on plans to bring samples from Mars ... and bring Mars samples home to our labs to settle the debate about life on Mars,” said Daniel Glavin, senior scientist at NASA ...

Mars2020 marks the first time NASA has gotten serious about bringing back samples of Mars rocks. And although that plan will ultimately involve billions more dollars and at least one other ...