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This color view taken November 7, 2011 of a mineral vein called "Homestake" comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, and released by NASA December 7, 2011.

NASA Rover Finds 'Bulletproof' Evidence of Past Water on Mars

A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.

'Bullet-Proof' Evidence of Past Water Found on Mars

A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.

Water on Mars: NASA Probe Finds Proof of Ancient Flow

A sliver of mineral deposits left over from ancient water flows has been discovered on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, researchers said Dec. 7. The bright vein of mineral appears to be gypsum and is about an inch wide by 18-inches long.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a signing ceremony for the expansion of tax credit for Brazilian States at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia November 10, 2011

High-Level Corruption Mars Brazil's Political System; but President Rouseff Stands Tall

Just a month shy of her first anniversary as Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff's tenure has been marred by a series of corruption scandals involving cabinet ministers. Rousseff has lost minister after minister to corruption scandals since last June, almost at the rate of one a month. The latest to lose his office is Labor Minister Carlos Lupi. The successive resignations point directly to the corruption that is deeply embedded in the public administration system in Brazil.

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Violence, pepper spray mars Black Friday shopping

A shopper pepper-sprayed other bargain hunters and robbers shot at customers to steal their Black Friday purchases, marring the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season, according to authorities.

NASA expected to launch next-generation Mars mission Saturday.

Mars Curiosity Rover to Launch Saturday

NASA plans to launch its next-generation Mars rover, the Curiosity, to scope out the red planet in a highly-anticipated liftoff scheduled for Saturday.

The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) Spacecraft in Baikonur Cosmodrome

Contact Restored with Russia’s Lost Mars Moon Mission

Scientists have picked up a signal from Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, the European Space Agency said Wednesday. The craft was launched earlier this month, but scientists soon lost contact with it.

NASA Preps for Mars 'Curiosity' Rover Launch

NASA is at the final stages of preparation for the launch of its most advanced Mars Rover that is set for take- off from Florida's Space Coast next week.

Russian Mars Probe Believed Lost in Space

All efforts to make contact with the mission have apparently failed.

NASA Mars Mission Set to Mark Australian Significance on ‘Martian Landmarks’

NASA to Launch New Space Craft to Mars

NASA is preparing to launch its largest and most advanced Mars rover at the end of the month. It will spend nearly two years examining areas of the Red Planet.

Four-Billion-Year-Old 'Unusual' Battered Volcano Found on Mars (PHOTOS)

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars exploration mission, Mars Express, revealed a large extinct volcano on the Martian surface that is battered and deformed.

Russian Spacecraft with Mission to Mars in Deep Trouble

Phobos-Grunt, Russia's space probe to the Martian moon Phobos, is stuck in orbit Wednesday. Officials cite equipment failure as the problem, raising new fears that the probe could release toxic fuel as it falls back towards earth, unless engineers are able to steer it back on track.

Russia to Send Spacecraft to Mars

Russia is the latest country to ramp up their space exploration efforts. On Wednesday, Russia will launch a probe into space with a mission of collecting information on the Martian moon, Phobos.

Mars500 experiment crew members react after leaving the mock spaceship in Moscow

Men Return to Earth After 'Manned Mission to Mars'

Six men return from 520 days spent in isolation to simulate the psychological demands of a manned space mission to Mars.

Mars crew lands after 520 days in isolation

Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.

NASA's New Mars Rover Reaches Florida Launch Pad

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a $2.5 billion rover designed to assess that planet's suitability for life, arrived at its Florida launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned November 25 liftoff, the U.S. space agency said.

Study of Clays Indicates Watery Mars Underground: NASA

Study of Clay Indicates Mars Water Was Underground: NASA

A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.

NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground

Mars Clay Suggest Martians Would Have Lived Underground

NASA scientists find the more habitual parts of Mars were subterranean where most of the water was warm and wet.

Water Flowed Beneath Mars Surface, New Evidence

Water on Mars increases the chances that life existed on the red planet.

Three year Mission to Mars Caught in Three Minutes [VIDEO]

It's been a long and lonely mission on Mars for NASA's Rover Opportunity, but as the gold-sized robot reached the rim of a 14-mile-wide crater, the highlights of its finding have been captured in a three-minute video complied from 309 images.

See Mars Rover's 3-Minute Video of a 3-Year Journey (VIDEO)

It took three years for NASA's Opportunity Rover to travel from Victoria Crater to the Endeavour Crater, on Mars. NASA's Mars Rover crossed 13 miles of Martian plains, at a glacial pace between Sept. 2008 and Aug. 2011.

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Searches Martian Crater For Signs of Alien Life

NASA's Mars Rover’s 3-Year, 13-Mile Journey Reduce to a 3-Minute-Trek [VIDEO]

It took NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity three years to travel from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, and the space agency has released a 3-minute movie of the 13-mile trek, which comprises 309 images taken along the journey.

Ozone Layer found on Venus may lead to Discovery of Life

It turns out that Venus, surprisingly, sports an ozone layer in its atmosphere just like Earth and Mars do, according to a new discovery made by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft

Neil Armstrong: NASA’s Current Condition ‘Embarrassing’ - Calls for New U.S. Commitment to Space Exploration

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and commander of Apollo 11, said the United States risks squandering 5 decades of space research, work, and accomplishments, if the nation does not find ways to restore hope and confidence in NASA, as part of a unified sense of purpose on space exploration.

Singer Bruno Mars performs on NBC's "Today" show in New York June 24, 2011.

Bruno Mars' Song on Breaking Dawn Soundtrack

It Will Rain by Bruno Mars will be the first song from the upcoming soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, the film's studio Summit Entertainment said on Thursday.

Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko, left, Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev, center, and Ron Garan

Spending Longer Time in Space Could Damage Astronauts' Eye-Sight

Astronauts in space are exposed to a newly identified medical condition, something that NASA should consider seriously. It is the blurring vision of some of the astronauts who have spent months in space that has made NASA think about possible impacts it may have on long-term space trips.