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Thermonuclear Blasts and New Species: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Mars

For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars.…

Science

Mars Got Cooked During a Recent Solar Storm

Days after light shows filled Earth’s skies with wonder, the red planet was hit by another powerful outburst of the…

Magazine

Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?

Alyssa Shannon was on her morning commute from Oakland to Sacramento, where she worked as an advanced-practice nurse at the…

Science

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it…

News

Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars

The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17…

Science

Days on Mars Are Getting Shorter

The discovery, using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, is puzzling to scientists who study the red planet.

World

The Smallest Moon of Mars May Not Be What It Seemed

New high-resolution images of tiny Deimos taken by an Emirati orbiter suggest that it may not be the captured asteroid…

Science

NASA Concludes InSight, Mars Mission That Listened for Quakes

After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because…

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