The Guardian Europe
Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Trump announces a space academy with no location, and everyone agrees Mars is next (shortly, of course).
ScienceDaily
A single asteroid smack may explain Deimos's crater and dusty coat - just in time for JAXA's MMX mission to go poke around.
NASA
Mars rover catches a moon doing a solar somersault, scientists use it to track the potato's inevitable doom.
Ars Technica
NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to break the off-world driving record, proving that autonomous navigation works great when there’s no traffic and the speed limit is 150 meters per hour.
NASA
NASA's Curiosity rover is about to cross an 'erosional supersurface' on Mars, which is basically a missing page in the planet's rock diary, and scientists are very excited about it.
NASA
NASA's Curiosity rover team thanks engineers for keeping the Mars robot alive, un-stuck, and productively poking rocks for over 12 years.
NASA
Fifty years ago, NASA's Viking 1 lander sent back the first photo from Mars's surface, revealing rocks, sand, and a foot pad - proving that even in space, the view is mostly rocks.
NASA
NASA Langley celebrates 50 years since Viking's Mars landing, proving that with enough wind-tunnel tests, you too can land on another planet.
ScienceDaily
A smashed-up asteroid sent space rubble raining down on Earth, the Moon, and Mars 800 million years ago - possibly cooling the planet and shaking things up in ways that make the Chicxulub impact look like a fender bender.
NASA
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft took a break from its asteroid road trip to snap some glamour shots of Mars’ surface, revealing craters and cliffs in stunning color.
NASA
Curiosity spends a week approaching a geologic boundary, zapping rocks with lasers, and filming dust devils - because on Mars, that’s how you celebrate Independence Day.
Ars Technica
Perseverance finds organic carbon on Mars surface, which could be from ancient life or just rocks being rocks - stay tuned for the sample return mission.
ScienceDaily
New paper argues we might be missing alien life because we're looking for space versions of ourselves - and that could lead to accidentally mining over E.T.
NASA
Curiosity aims for smooth Martian terrain, finds a bumpy surprise that teaches us not to trust orbital images at face value.
NASA
NASA and Relativity Space are teaming up to study Martian weather with a 2028 mission, because if you're going to colonize Mars, you should probably know if it's windy.
SpaceNews
Humanity is finally building a moon base, but please don't forget about Mars - it's the whole reason we're reheating this lunar leftover.
NASA
Curiosity wraps up its 47th drill site with record-breaking imaging, rock-naming ceremonies, and a pet rock that won't leave.
ScienceDaily
South Korean scientists find that asteroid impacts created warm, mineral-rich crater lakes where oxygen-producing microbes thrived, potentially explaining Earth's Great Oxidation Event - and giving Mars a new place to look for alien life.
NASA
Curiosity gets back to drilling after a block-related mishap, while Psyche swings by for a gravity assist and a coordinated atmospheric observation - like a road trip with bonus science.
ScienceDaily
A 1,300-kilometer Martian valley gives scientists more evidence that Mars once had an ocean, because apparently being a dry, cold desert wasn't always the vibe.
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