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Life on Mars: Hopefully It's Dead

If scientists or rovers ever do find evidence of life on Mars, it might be more convenient if it's dead, joked NASA planetary scientist Chris McKay today at the annual American Association for the...

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Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Guides Next Wave of Space Exploration Missions

Sample Return Mission Coming in hot! NASA/JPL NASA's search for extraterrestrial life could result in missions such as a balloon or boat-like capsule on Titan, or even a complex three-part Mars...

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Bipedal Japanese Robot Will Walk on the Moon by 2015

Maido-Kun That's one small step for robots, one giant leap sideways for space exploration. SOHLA Japan's robot love is set to go out of this world with a plan to put a bipedal robot on the moon by...

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Congratulations, Spirit! Rover Is Now the Longest-Running Mission to the Red...

Spirit, via artist's rendering A stuck robotic rover may have overtaken NASA's Viking probe as the longest-surviving mission on Mars -- so long as it's still alive. But its robotic twin Opportunity...

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This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw

Resting in Peace NASA Despite NASA's attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our...

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Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Guides Next Wave of Space Exploration Missions

NASA's search for extraterrestrial life could result in missions such as a balloon or boat-like capsule on Titan, or even a complex three-part Mars mission to return a Martian sample to Earth. Until...

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Bipedal Japanese Robot Will Walk on the Moon by 2015

Japan's robot love is set to go out of this world with a plan to put a bipedal robot on the moon by 2015. Yet the bipedal robot's main mission seems curiously lacking in…

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Congratulations, Spirit! Rover Is Now the Longest-Running Mission to the Red...

A stuck robotic rover may have overtaken NASA's Viking probe as the longest-surviving mission on Mars -- so long as it's still alive. But its robotic twin Opportunity could…

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This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw

Despite NASA’s attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our …

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