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3.4 billion years ago, an unnervingly familiar cataclysm struck Mars.

Alien enthusiast Scott C. Waring believes he has found evidence of an 'ancient alien statue' on Mars from a series of photos taken by a NASA rover on the planet

Mars Bars and Snickers are soon going to have paper wrappers – a swap being celebrated as it means they are easier to recycle.

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In a bid to avoid excess plastic waste, Australian confectionery brand Mars Wrigley is switching to paper packaging, with the transition starting next year.

With the MMX rover, the world is breaking new ground in terms of technology because never before has an exploration vehicle with wheels travelled on a small celestial body with only one-thousandth of the Earth’s gravitational pull.

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NASA's latest rover to Mars got a close look at rocks that came into contact with water within an ancient crater.

Water and brine left behind some key ingredients for life, but the environment they created may not have been very hospitable.

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…