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Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos

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Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos

To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, Dead Planets Society, New Scientist editors have selected some of our most delightful premium articles about the solar system and beyond

Features

Space

Watch Mars ‘livestream’ by the European Space Agency – latest updates

News

The Allen Telescope Array

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Fake alien message sent to Earth to prepare us for first contact

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It may have been snowing on Mars 400,000 years ago

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2GYKRJN The waxing crescent Moon near the stars Castor and Pollux in Gemini, with Mars below, as the last of the winter stars set into the western twilight on

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How to spot Mars travelling through Gemini this week

Regulars

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Amazing images of Mars’s moon Deimos snapped by Emirates Mars Mission

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Inside the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars

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Martian base on Earth set to host first ‘astronauts’

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M93A81 Golden colored Asian Rice plants (Oryza sativa) growing in their natural condition with drooping rice grains and a mountain background in rural Japan

Life

Gene-edited rice may be able to grow on Mars

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A region of the Atacama desert called Red Stone

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Mars rover sensors may not be sensitive enough to find signs of life

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Springtime on Mars: Hubble's Best View of the Red Planet

Space

The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality

Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet

Culture

Space

NASA’s InSight lander has been declared dead after four years on Mars

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Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

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NASA's Perseverance rover recorded the sound of a dust devil on Mars

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Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface

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