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Is it possible to colonise Mars? In 1964, Nasa’s uncrewed Mariner 4 spacecraft made its first successful fly-by of Mars. Then, in July 1976, a craft (Viking 1) made the first successful landing ...

What are the best methods to explore Valles Marineris on Mars, which is the largest canyon in the solar system? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

The first spacecraft to successfully reach Mars was NASA's Mariner 4 probe, in July 1965. Flying without any humans aboard, the probe soared past Mars and sent back photos of the planet's surface ...

Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, said New Glenn (named after astronaut John Glenn) will return to flight spring ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Successful flybys of Venus (Mariner 2 in 1962) and Mars (Mariner 4 in 1964) occurred in short order. All early Soviet attempts at planetary flybys failed, but later the first planetary orbiters ...

From Robby, the Robot in Forbidden Planet, to the infamous C-3P0 from Star Wars, the use of robots for space exploration has ...