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2026 Mars mission will set out to solve the mystery of its moons

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will be launching the Martian Moons eXploration mission next year, which should finally tell us how Mars acquired the moons Phobos and Deimos

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Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

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Lichen: Image made using visible light (sun or Xenon flash), the two

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How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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computer-generated view of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater

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Mars may once have had a much larger moon

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Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

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The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water

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Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet's equator

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

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Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

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Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a pressure three times that on Earth

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A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why

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NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are promising

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Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae

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Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano

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