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October 20, 2015

Incredible tech: How to find life on Mars

While NASA's Curiosity rover found that Mars could have once supported life, scientists still haven't been able to detect a definitive sign that something once roamed the Red Planet. But they haven't stopped looking.

October 20, 2015

Toxic Mars: Chemical challenge awaits on the Red Planet

The pervading carpet of perchlorate chemicals found on Mars may boost the chances that microbial life exists on the Red Planet — but perchlorates are also perilous to the health of future crews destined to explore that way-off world.

October 20, 2015

Stunning Mars panorama captures Curiosity rover at work

Three spectacular new panoramas give an eye-popping look at NASA's Mars rover Curiosity hard at work on the Red Planet.

October 20, 2015

Life on ancient Mars? What you need to know

Mars was capable of supporting microbial life in the distant past, scientists announced Tuesday.

October 20, 2015

Green cheese? Gold? NASA to reveal what Mars is made of

NASA will reveal new discoveries about Mars gleaned from the Curiosity rover's first rock powder sample in a high-profile press conference on Tuesday.

October 20, 2015

Giant Mars crater shows evidence of lake ... and maybe life?

New photos of a huge crater on Mars suggest water may lurk in crevices under the planet's surface, hinting that life might have once lived there, and raising the possibility that it may live there still, researchers say.

October 20, 2015

NASA's next goal: bring back samples from Mars

The next steps in NASA's Mars exploration strategy should build toward returning Martian rocks and dirt to Earth to search for signs of past life, a new report finds.

October 20, 2015

What will it be like to live on Mars? Inflatable and super sustainable

It's been a long day, but you take one last glance around at the ochre sky and clay-colored earth before heading inside the inflatable, windowless structure you now call home.

October 20, 2015

NASA gets new countdown clock just in time for Orion's launch debut; test flight Thursday

NASA has a new state-of-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a new high-tech countdown clock to go with it.

October 20, 2015

90,000 messages will be beamed to Mars Friday

Radio telescopes will beam tens of thousands of messages to Mars this Friday (Nov.