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The race to Mars: Elon Musk stakes his claim

Elon Musk believes that as a species we have two options for our future: we either stay on Earth and eventually become extinct, or we become a ‘multi-planetary species’ and create a new civilisation on Mars. At an inspiring conference on the 27 September in Mexico, Musk- the co-founder of...
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By , Oct. 10, 2016

Water on Mars – but don’t get your hopes up

First New Horizons and the Pluto flyby, and now this – 2015 has been a big year for astronomy. In late September, NASA confirmed that they had found unambiguous evidence for the presence of liquid water on the red planet, albeit in small amounts. This does, however, add credence to the old theory that Mars was once covered in oceans, and could quite possibly point to life being found on what was formerly thought of as a dry and dead planet.
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By , Oct. 16, 2015

The Waters of Mars

Set in 2059, ‘The Waters of Mars’ tells the story of the downfall of the world’s first off-planet settlement. The Doctor appears on Bowie Station One (named, presumably, after that notable glam rock space pioneer) at exactly the moment that the combination of a faulty water filter and a very...
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By , Nov. 23, 2009