Mars Inc. said it planned to remove food dyes from its products in 2016 but has since said this won't apply to certain treats.

M&Ms and Skittles are under investigation by the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as part of the state and federal crackdown on food companies using dyes that have allegedly been linked to cancer and other disorders.

The largest piece of Mars on Earth became the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction at Sotheby’s annual ”Geek Week,” and a full Ceratosaurus skeleton fetched $30 million. Next up for bidding: an Apple computer hand-built by Steve Jobs.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA.

Oil major Exxon Mobil bought Mars crude for August delivery, two sources said on Wednesday, after briefly halting purchases of the flagship offshore grade due to a zinc contamination issue.

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding liquid water appears to be in the form of brines,

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary scientist at Brown University and lead author of the study, told Space.com by email. "The tracks they leave behind last longer, so we are able to observe them more thoroughly."

Still, some challenges need to be worked out for companies eying the unique manufacturing process. For SpaceX, its plans involve the Starship rocket, which has faced setbacks in recent months following its recent explosion on a test stand at its Texas facilities and previous launches similarly meeting a fiery end.