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Laboratory tests on the vehicle explorer “Phoenix” confirmed the existence of water on the planet Mars, NASA said today.
The U.S. space agency said yesterday that the robotic arm of “Phoenix” deposited one sample in an instrument that identified water vapor. “We have water on Mars, said William Boynton, thermal analyzer scientist at the University […]

A huge step has just been made in the race to achieve a permanent lunar colony. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, have managed to set up a successful bacterial culture on a substrate made with lunar soil, plus the supplementation of air, water and light. They used a kind of […]