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A U.S. Senate committee next week will consider extending the planned life of the International Space Station by two years to give companies more time to develop a replacement, one of a few changes to ...

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The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without ...

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Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.