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Starship at a test facility

Space

The rocket Elon Musk wants to send to Mars is almost ready to launch

Elon Musk's giant Starship rocket is due to take passengers on a trip around the moon in 2020. Last night, he said orbital tests will begin within two months

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Some microbes manage to live in the inhospitable Atacama desert

Earth

Bacteria fly into the Atacama Desert every afternoon on the wind

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Mars camera

Space

Mars 2020 rover cameras get eye exams to hunt life on the Red Planet

Regulars

Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive

Space

Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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Life on Mars

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Life on Mars

Mars rover

Space

Unique chance to confirm methane spikes – and perhaps life – on Mars

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the NASA-MOLA false-colour topographic model of the Mars surface Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the hemispheric dichotomy and southern highlands (orange), a likely source for the Martian polymict breccia meteorites

Physics

Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought

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Phobos

Space

Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon

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astronauts

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

Humanity's first Mars mission will need a big rocket, lots of free time, reliable team mates and lots of NASA cash. Here's our 5-step plan to get people to the planet and back

Features

Technology

Surviving Mars lets you enjoy the highs and lows of building a colony

Culture

Space

Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet

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Space

NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

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Life

If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earth’s

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