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Is NASA ready for the Red Planet? US senator's 'Mission to MARS Act' aims to modernize Johnson Space Center
Texas Senator John Cornyn announced a $1 billion MARS Act to upgrade NASA's Johnson Space Center to better support ...
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Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back'
"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major ...
NASA makes 'a step towards Mars' as space agency aims to send astronauts to planet
The Red Planet is the fourth from the sun and is the seventh largest planet. As the planet is dry, rocky and bitter cold, a ...
Elon Musk wants SpaceX to target Mars because 'life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun'
Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring ...
First aurora photo from Mars shows green glow in the sky
Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...
NASA's Europa Clipper captures Mars in infrared
On its recent swing by Mars, NASA's Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The ...
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Trump's proposed 2026 NASA budget cuts will cede our space 'position of leadership to other nations', top scientists say
Given the considerable uncertainty about the future NASA Science budget given projected Trump Administration funding ...