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Bruno Mars is back with the velvety swooner, "The Romantic," his first solo album in a decade. Here's why it's worth a listen ...

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Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations—low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...