Mars

Hollywood mourns ‘Happy Days’ creator and 'Pretty Woman’ director Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall, who created and executive produced some of the most popular sitcoms on TV — Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple and...
Elon Musk: get a manned mission to Mars before World War III breaks out
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of electric car company Tesla, is worried that a looming World War III could scupper his plans to build a human colony...
Stretch marks spell trouble for moon as Mars pulls it slowly to its doom
Mars’ largest moon has begun to fall apart. Phobos is already scarred by 12 mile “stretch marks” formed by stresses caused by the gravitational...
Is there life on Mars? Maybe, say scientists as they reveal flowing water is present
Flowing liquid water, essential to life, is almost certainly present on Mars, scientists believe. Experts think water is responsible for mysterious...
M is not for murder, it’s for Marshmallow, says Google
All the speculation about what the “M” stands for in Android M, Google’s next mobile operating system, can finally come to an end: it’s...
Methane in Mars meteorites suggests possibility of life
Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the...
Personal best: Mars rover travels distance of a marathon - in 11 years
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet — a feat accomplished in a record...
Walking marathon: NASA rover completes 26-mile journey in 11 years
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet - a feat accomplished in a record...
NASA rover completes 11-year Mars marathon
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet — a feat accomplished in a record...
Signs of life: Curiosity rover finds evidence of nitrogen on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained...
Signs of life: Curiosity rover has found evidence of nitrogen on Mars, says NASA
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained...
Despite risk of certain death, thousands still want to be the first one on Mars
Experts are warning that the hundred thousands of applicants looking to take a one-way trip to Mars will find their trips far shorter than originally thought.
Lockdown in Marseille after masked gunmen open fire on police ahead of PM visit
Hooded gunmen have fired on police in the French city of Marseille where the Prime Minister Manuel Valls had been due to visit. An armed gang of up to...
'Gang related' hooded gunmen open fire on police in Marseille
Hooded gunmen have fired on police in the French city of Marseille where the Prime Minister Manuel Valls had been due to visit. The shooting may be gang-related,...
Ahead of Super Bowl, Seahawks’ media-shy running back has a new line
Seattle Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch is not fond of attention. But he was getting far less of it before he decided to stop talking to the media.
Giant crater on Mars was once a vast lake, Curiosity Rover shows
A mountain on Mars may have built up over time from lake sediments, according to NASA scientists who have been studying observations from the Curiosity...
NASA’s Curiosity rover looks to Pink Cliff to discover origins of Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover will examine a unique rock formation dubbed Pink Cliffs for possible clues to how Mars was formed.
India makes history with its successful maiden Mars mission
Just days after a NASA spacecraft reached the Red Planet, India has made history by successfully putting a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first...
UAE plans unmanned mission to Mars by 2021
The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it planned to send an unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, in the Arab world’s first mission to another planet.
Nasa’s ‘flying saucer’ launched successfully, lands with a bump
A saucer-shaped space vehicle has successfully completed a US$150 million mission into the Earth’s atmosphere, but a massive parachute—intended...

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