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Elon Musk envisions 'fun' but dangerous trips to Mars SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft.
28 сентября 2016
Comet Siding Spring whizzes past Mars A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.
20 октября 2014
US-India to collaborate on Mars exploration The United States and India agreed to cooperate on future exploration of the Red Planet.
01 октября 2014
India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface.
25 сентября 2014
Indian spacecraft on course to enter Mars orbit India is on course to become the first nation to reach Mars on its first attempt.
24 сентября 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches 'far frontier' NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has reached the base of the Martian mountain it aims to explore and should start drilling rocks there soon.
12 сентября 2014
Robots do battle over Mars exploration Robots built to traverse the rugged terrain of Mars battled it out in Poland in a competition to find the best way to explore the Red Planet.
06 сентября 2014
NASA rover breaks out-of-this-world distance record The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA said.
29 июля 2014
©Reuters/Stringer Chinese moon rover designer shooting for Mars The man who designed China's Jade Rabbit moon rover hopes a more advanced version of his creation will be sent to Mars, state media reported, underscoring Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme.
04 июля 2014
"Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator" vehicle. Photo courtesy of top.rbc.ru NASA's 'flying saucer' tests new Mars-landing technology NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean.
30 июня 2014
Mars 'jelly doughnut' rock intrigues scientists A strange rock that looks like a jelly doughnut has appeared on Mars, and scientists are closer to figuring out how it got there.
24 января 2014
Earthly politicians seek roadmap for space exploration Seeking to boldly go where few politicians have gone before, more than 30 space-faring nations gathered Thursday to map out ways to pool mankind's efforts to explore the stars.
10 января 2014
Photo courtesy of thespec.com More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission More than 1,000 candidates -- from 200,000 hopefuls -- have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday.
03 января 2014
The  distillation unit. ©Dmitriy Khegai Kazakhstan invention to help find life on Mars A distillation unit invented in Kazakhstan will be used by the expeditions search for life on Mars.
05 декабря 2013
NASA poised to launch Mars atmosphere probe What happened to the water on Mars? How did the Red Planet's atmosphere become so thin over time? NASA's MAVEN probe is scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to find out.
16 ноября 2013
Indian Mars mission suffers glitch but 'no setback' India's Mars spacecraft suffered a brief engine failure Monday as scientists tried to move it into a higher orbit around Earth, but controllers denied any setback to the ambitious low-cost mission.
12 ноября 2013
China shows off moon rover model before space launch China offered a rare glimpse into its secretive space programme on Tuesday, displaying a model of a lunar rover that will explore the moon's surface in an upcoming mission.
05 ноября 2013
Countdown to Mars: Indian mission prepares for blastoff India's launches its first mission to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet with a programme designed to showcase its low-cost space technology.
05 ноября 2013
©Reuters//NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Handout NASA to probe why Mars lost its atmosphere NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.
29 октября 2013
NASA's Mars Curiosity. ©Reuters/NASA/Handout Life on Mars hopes fade after rover findings: study Hopes of finding life on Mars suffered a setback after new findings from NASA's Curiosity rover detected only trace amounts of methane gas in the Red Planet's atmosphere.
21 сентября 2013

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