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Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits
European Space Agency, CC BY-NC-ND Damian Bailey, University of South Wales and Angelique Van Ombergen, University of Antwerp;…
Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off
Analog missions, like those conducted at NASA’s CHAPEA facility at the Johnson Space Center, help scientists study human…
Could life exist on Mars today? Here’s what the latest evidence says
Part of the ancient lake delta in Jezero Crater on Mars. JPL-Caltech Seán Jordan, Dublin City University and…
A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be the first known to have an atmosphere – here’s what we found
Hannah Wakeford, University of Bristol and Ryan MacDonald, University of St Andrews New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST…
NASA’s rover finds potential sign of life on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered potential biosignatures in a Martian rock sample, indicating the presence of iron-rich minerals and organic carbon, which suggests a past habitable environment that may have been sustained by microbial life.
Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery — new study
NASA Kevin Olsen, University of Oxford and Mhairi Reid, University of Oxford Scientists have discovered that Mars has…
NASA’s New Horizons pilots by starlight from 5B miles away
By measuring the apparent shift of nearby stars from its vantage point billions of miles away, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully demonstrated the first-ever method of interstellar navigation.
Could the latest ‘interstellar comet’ be an alien probe? Why spotting cosmic visitors is harder than you think
Comet 3I/ATLAS. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech/Jen Miller/Mahdi Zamani, CC BY Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology On July…
To build on Mars, scientists create self-sustaining ‘living’ material
Scientists have developed a self-sustaining material derived from microbes that can transform Martian dust into concrete for constructing future habitats.
Infrared search for hidden ‘Planet Nine’ reveals two new candidates
By searching for the faint heat signature of a hidden world, astronomers have identified two promising new candidates for the mysterious Planet Nine.