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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, 19:26

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, 12:18

The United States and India agreed to cooperate on future exploration of the Red Planet.

• 01 октября 2014, 14:36

India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface.

• 25 сентября 2014, 15:10

India is on course to become the first nation to reach Mars on its first attempt.

• 24 сентября 2014, 14:33

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, 11:19

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, 10:31

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, 10:11

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, 13:22

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, 12:47

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, 13:01

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, 13:15

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, 14:47

A distillation unit invented in Kazakhstan will be used by the expeditions search for life on Mars.

• 05 декабря 2013, 15:05

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, 11:32

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, 14:46

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, 17:01

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, 10:31

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, 18:10

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, 13:30