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NASA's Perseverance rover firing up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface. Technology made by Scottish academics will be involved in the next mission to Mars. Picture: PA

Mars mission: Device built by Scottish researchers to be flown to Mars in bid to...

Starship is set to launch today

When is SpaceX Starship launch and how to watch Musk’s spacecraft test

Five-time winner Tiger Woods struggled in cold and wet conditions on Saturday in the 87th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. Picture: Patrick Smith/Getty Images.

Even Tiger Woods, golf's miracle man, is losing his latest injury battle

Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel

NASA: the four astronauts taking part in 2024 Moon mission

Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars and the Moon aligned in the night sky earlier this week (Adobe Stock)

Horoscopes: what planets alignment could mean for your star sign

Jupiter, Venus, the Moon, and Mars were all expected to be easily visible but Uranus and Mercury a bit harder to spot

Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars, and the Moon align in planetary parade

Five planets set to line up in night sky

Why Scotland needs to say goodbye to the deep fried mars bar

Hopefully the comedy film Mars Attacks! was not actually more of a documentary (Picture: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for ReedPop )

Dear hyper-intelligent aliens, sorry about shooting down your spaceships

Iceland issued the recall on Friday December 30. 2022. (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Iceland issues urgent product recall - food allergy fears

If Mars is 'Planet B', then the future for humanity looks bleak (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

We must embrace nature-friendly farming to save Earth from 'Age of Loneliness'

Galaxy launching chocolate digestive biscuit at Asda - here’s when

Alien bugs could be living deep underground on Mars, according to new research. The Red Planet is volcanically active, suggesting the right ingredients for present-day microbial life.

‘Alien bugs’ could be living deep underground on Mars, study finds

The use of heavy farm vehicles is compacting the soil, so that water flashes off rather than soaking in (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Industrial farming is threatening humanity’s ability to feed itself

Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad

Man could be living on the Moon by end of decade – Nasa official

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 16: NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I mission will send the uncrewed spacecraft around the moon to test the vehicle's propulsion, navigation and power systems as a precursor to later crewed mission to the lunar surface. (Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images)

Artemis 1: Nasa’s moon rocket lifts off

Twix and Mars bars cost a lot more than they did in the 90s.

Sweet treats that have soared in price as grocery inflation hits 13.9%

The digestive problems of pigs may have solved a Mars meteorite mystery

Pig vomit potentially solves century old Mars meteorite mystery

Half-Empty Glasses.

Fringe theatre reviews: Half-Empty Glasses | This Moment in America + more

Mars CEO Grant F Reid outlining his vision for the firm at a leadership summit

Scots-born Mars chief steps down to fight climate change

A dark chocolate version of Maltesers will launch later this month (Photo: Mars Wrigley)

Maltesers launches new dark chocolate flavour in low sugar range

‘Healthy’ Mars and Snickers bars launched in bid to overcome new junk food laws

Daniel Smith, Founder AstroAgency and Director of Space Scotland

Sustainable Space – a contradiction in terms or an example of what's possible? -...

NASA's Perseverance rover firing up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface. Picture: PA

Scottish scientist to pilot Mars mission

The Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2021 (Shutterstock)

QUIZ: Can you guess the Cambridge words of the year based on their dictionary de...

4660 Nereus is set to come within 2.4 million miles of the earth on 11 December (image: Shutterstock)

Will an asteroid hit earth in December - and should you be worried?

Mars chief executive Grant Reid. Picture: John Devlin

Mars' Scottish CEO says Glasgow will be the tipping point

The strategy was launched today

Scotland plan unveiled to become global leader in space development

Nadia with her fellow crew members on the mission to the Moon (Photo: Tommaso Antonio Giacon).

Scottish female analog astronaut talks about her ‘trip to the Moon’

Comedian Joanne McNally

My Festival: Joanne McNally

Comedian Peter Buckley Hill

Fringe comedy reviews: Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians | Alex Farrow | Wil...

Scotland's first Planetary Sciences course will be launched in September.

Scotland’s first degree in planetary sciences launched in Aberdeen

Strawberry moon 2021: when to see the June supermoon from UK this week - and wha...

Professor Catherine Heymans says the new Vera C Rubin Observatory, being built in Chile, could spark a revolution in physics (Picture: Maverick Photo Agency)

How a vast new telescope could spark a revolution in physics – Catherine Heymans

A photograph of Mars taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

Moon and Mars colonies could learn from Hebridean communities – Charles Cockell

A picture taken from Nasa's Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars during its first flight and a 1901 image of a glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Picture: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Library of Congress/AFP via Getty Images)

Mars flight brings humanity's greatest moment a step closer – Scotsman says

Nasa makes history with helicopter flight on Mars - and sends back these incredible images (NASA)

Nasa makes history with helicopter flight on Mars - and sends back these incredi...

Nasa's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test, captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance on April 16, 2021 picture: AFP PHOTO / NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/HANDOUT

Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes first ever controlled flight on another planet

A full scale model of the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

Can I watch live stream of Ingenuity Mars landing?

Tempura herbs

Recipe: Tempura herbs from Mark Diacono's book Herb

The surface of Mars – or could it be Portobello beach? (Picture: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/AFP via Getty Images)

How Leith faked the Mars landing – Susan Morrison

Loch Arkaig 'celebrity' ospreys Louis and Aila and their chicks Mallie and Rannoch have had their names etched on special chips inside Nasa's Perseverance rover, making the birds the first of their kind to land on Mars when the mission touched down on the red planet earlier this month

The ospreys have landed – on Mars

Digital wallets are the future

Banking as you know it will be a thing of the past - Jim Duffy

Nasa's Curisoity rover drilled sites on the Martian surface in 2020 named Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Deep fried Mars? The areas on Mars named after Edinburgh and Glasgow

Nasa has revealed first-of-its kind high-resolution images of Mars after the Perseverance rover touched down on the red planet on Thursday (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech).

Nasa unveils brand new images of Mars

Alex Nicolson worked on the Mars Curiosity Rover which landed on the planet in 2012.

Scottish engineer shares his experience of working on the last Mars Rover

When was the first Mars landing and how many rovers are on the surface of the Red Planet? (Pic: Shutterstock)

Mars landing: when did NASA first land on the Red Planet?

Mars is red as it is covered in iron oxide (Shutterstock)

This is why Mars is a red colour - and whether life on the planet is possible

(Photo: NASA/Getty Images)

Nasa's Perseverance rover has landed on Mars - here's how it got there

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the area in front of it using its onboard Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera A. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Watch the moment Nasa's Perseverance rover landed on Mars and sent back its firs...

The Mars rover landed on Thursday evening.

Mars landing 2021: Mars rover successfully lands on surface of the red planet

NASA's Perseverance is due to land on Mars this evening (Getty Images)

NASA's Perseverance rover will soon land on Mars - here's how to watch it live

NASA's Perseverance started its journey to Mars on July 30, 2020 (Getty Images)

How to watch Nasa's Perseverance land on Mars

Some of Scotland's most famous culinary dishes. Do they make our list of readers' recommendations?

19 of Scotland’s food and drink delicacies you have to try

A demonstration of what the probe would look like as it approaches Mars (Picture: MBRSC)

UAE Mars Mission to launch Hope probe into Mars orbit will be completed today

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, an Edinburgh University roboticist and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with Nasa humanoid Valkyrie

How robots could be used to treat cancer – Professor Sethu Vijayakumar

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