The early environment of our planet was as poisonous as that of present-day Venus, as gases got away from a magma sea during Earth's turn of events, researchers have found, subsequent to dissolving drifting marbles with lasers for their exploration.

Scientists unravel Earth's early atmosphere after melting hovering marbles with lasers

Deep in the Mars like landscape of Utah's Red Rock desert lies a mystery, a gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state.

Strange metal tower found in Utah desert

Mars was once home to seas and oceans, and perhaps even life. But our neighboring world has long since dried up and its atmosphere has been blown away, while most activity beneath its surface has long ceased.

Signs of recent volcanic eruption on Mars hint at Habitats for life

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was working on Chandrayaan-2 (their second lunar exploration mission) around the year 2011 with the Russian space agency but had to shelve the then plan owing to Russia backing out.

How ISRO modified a lunar orbiter into Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan, India’s ‘Moon Man’ recalls

Looks like we might be getting closer to discovering life on mars. Two years ago, scientists discovered a large reservoir under Mars icy surface. Now, they have found three such more lakes!

Hints of life on Mars? Scientists find three lakes buried under the red planet's surface!

The United Arab Emirates had, in 2017, announced its ambition to colonise Mars within the next 100 years. Architects have taken a step ahead in this scheme of things, and now Dubai is set for an other-worldly architectural project.

A prototype Martian city is being built in the desert outside Dubai

Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight

SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars.

SpaceX Starship prototype takes first big step towards Mars; completes test flight

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lifted off successfully on July 30 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rover will take about seven months to travel to Mars and will search for signs of life, explore the planet's geology, and much more.

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NASA sends a helicopter along with the rover to Mars

A piece of Martian meteorite will go back to Mars with NASA's robot rover Perseverance. The ancient rock has been donated by the Natural History Museum in London and the rover carrying it will be propelled towards the red planet on a seven-month journey after its launch on Thursday.

Martian rock to be sent back to Mars in NASA's rover mission after 700,000 years

A group of researchers have found that humans could live on Mars only if fungi found inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is used to protect against radiation. According to researchers, a layer of fungus, that is around 21 centimetres thick, could "largely negate the annual dose-equivalent of the radiation environment on the surface of Mars".

Fungus found in Chernobyl could protect humans from deadly radiations on Mars

China has launched a rover to Mars on a journey coinciding with a similar US mission. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are closest to send their probes, with China's mission due to lift off by Saturday and the US spacecraft on July 30.

China launches Mars probe in space race with US

China has launched the Tianwen-1 mission to planet Mars. This is China's first interplanetary spacecraft. With its ambitious Tianwen 1 mission, China will attempt to orbit and land on Mars on its first attempt, subsequently deploying a rover.

China's mission to Mars: A mission to collect data from Mars Tianwen-1

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In quest to beat US in space, China launches independent unmanned mission to Mars

The United Arab Emirates launched its first mission to Mars on Monday as it strives to develop its scientific and technological capabilities and reduce its reliance on oil.

In its first, United Arab Emirates launches 'hope' mission to Mars from Japan

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue across roughly a mile of terrain. By the end of the said trip, the rover will be able to ascend to the next section of the Martian mountain it's been exploring since 2014.

NASA's Curiosity rover embarks on Mars road trip

The oil-rich United Arab Emirates plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to Mars -- after having built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space.

UAE plans to send a probe to Mars - a first for the Arab world

A planet has been spotted orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed, with astronomers concluding it may be the surviving core of a planet once perhaps larger than Jupiter that was stripped of its gaseous atmosphere.

Surviving core of Jupiter-like planet found near distant star

As a mark of respect all the healthcare workers fighting coronavirus battle around the world, NASA's Next Mars rover revealed a commemorative plate attached to the rover, called the COVID-19 Perseverance plate.

NASA's Next Mars rover honours healthcare workers battling coronavirus

Vaneeza Rupani, a 17-year-old from Alabama, United States, has named NASA’s first helicopter for Mars “Ingenuity”. The teenager had suggested the name in NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest which had received over 28,000 entries.

Indian-origin teenager names NASA’s first Mars helicopter

NASA will launch a new Mars rover in July, and a student in 7th grade has won the contest to name it. Meet 'Perseverance' in this report.

Gravitas: Seventh grader names NASA's next Mars rover

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