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It could be snowing on Mars right now

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It could be snowing on Mars right now

The Red Planet may have had intense snowstorms long ago when it was wetter, but a model shows it could still have violent snowfall at night when the clouds cool

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Image of Mars from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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A white dust devil against the red Martian surface

Space

Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day

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A NASA spacecraft

Earth

NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth

Analysis

Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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Mission control

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The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream

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Mars strata

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Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Protoplanetary disc around young star TW Hydrae.

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Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun

A sudden brightening of the infant sun – called an FU Orionis outburst – could have melted dust grains and made them stick together, building our world

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Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped

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