https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Chocolate giant Mars on Tuesday ordered a massive recall of Mars and Snickers bars as well as Milky Way bars in Spain after plastic was found in a product. https://www.thelocal.es/20160223/mars-snickers-and-milky-way-bars-recalled-across-spain Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:23:39 +0100 mars-snickers-and-milky-way-bars-recalled-across-spain Spanish scientists have built Mars here on Earth — at least within the walls of a simulation chamber that mimics conditions on the Red Planet down to its Martian dust, according to a paper out Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140326/mars-on-earth-vacuum-chambers-mimic-the-red-planet Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:52:44 +0100 mars-on-earth-vacuum-chambers-mimic-the-red-planet 'Budget' flights into space are set to take off from Spain's Canary Islands within a matter of years. https://www.thelocal.es/20131213/spains-canaries-to-launch-low-cost-space-voyages Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:39:00 +0100 spains-canaries-to-launch-low-cost-space-voyages Eleven Spaniards have made a bid for a place on Mars One, an international project to set up a human colony on Mars. It’s a one-way ticket but in the project's first two weeks 78,000 people around the world have already applied. https://www.thelocal.es/20130509/spaniards-eye-one-way-ticket-to-mars Thu, 09 May 2013 20:28:00 +0200 spaniards-eye-one-way-ticket-to-mars