In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

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Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover discovers the Sapphire Canyon Martian rock in Jezero Crater, revealing facts, trivia, and potential signs of life on Mars for the U.S.

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Is there life on Mars? Or maybe just a turtle? A bizarre picture taken by a rover on the Red Planet appears to show what ...