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Mars

Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

Space

Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

NASA’s push to develop a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor could create a faster, lighter spaceship and cut the trip to Mars down to four months

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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

Space

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

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Mission control

Space

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

Analysis

Mars strata

Life

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

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Life

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Features

Protoplanetary disc around young star TW Hydrae.

Space

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

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Martian surface

Space

Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped

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Mars and asteroids

Space

Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago

Nine asteroids that trail the Red Planet contain a material usually only formed in the mantle of rocky planets

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Space

Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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Space

Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

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Space

NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO2 to space

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Space

ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life

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