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Mars rocks brought back to Earth could spark 'Martian plague', scientists fear A planned mission to bring potentially life-bearing rocks from the Martian surface to Earth runs the risk of bringing about a deadly "Martian plague" from which we have no defence Updated NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is the biggest, heaviest, most advanced vehicle sent to the Red Planet (Image: via REUTERS) The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subscribe we will us...

Viking landers touched down on opposite sides of Mars in 1976 and carried out experiments in which soil samples were fed liquid nutrients and incubated. Instruments looked for gasses such as oxygen that would be given off by biological activity metabolizing those nutrients.  This illustration shows NASA’s Mars spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches the Red Planet. Hundreds of critical events had to be executed perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Thursday.(NASA/JPL-Caltech) Those experiments detected traces of gases, which had the bio...

10 Crazy Theories And Conspiracies Regarding Mars Human beings have been fascinated by Mars since antiquity. Now, we’re working toward landing on it. However, conspiracy theorists and fringe thinkers will tell you that we’ve already been to Mars, at the very least. These crazy-sounding but interesting stories won’t go away until we finally set foot on the red planet. In the meantime, here are 10 “out of this world” theories about our celestial next-door neighbor. 10 Is Phobos Really A Space Station? When the European Space Agency stated that one of Mars’s moons, Phobos, appeared t...