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A scientist argued that a Viking lander experiment in 1976 detected microbial life on Mars and urged NASA to repeat the tests ...

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NASA’s rover Perseverance spent nearly a year exploring the rim of a crater believed to have held a huge lake.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a coral-shaped rock on Mars. Though not alive, its shape reveals clues about the planet’s geology. Small discoveries like this help scientists decode Mars’ ancient past ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

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NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on Mars, believed to have formed billions of years ago.

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