American space companies Interlune and Venturi Astrolab partnered to test a lunar excavator on the Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover.

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American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

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Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

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Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...