Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mastcam—its main set of "eyes." Taken over 16 minutes on Jan. 17 (the ...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just ...

NASA has revealed its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has made a 'successful' and exciting discovery. The National Aeronautics ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

This has happened before: The Mars rover Spirit in 2010 got stuck in soft sand one day and never escaped. Like its predecessor and nearly identical twin Curiosity, which is still exploring a ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are creating a “Golden Age of Space Exploration.” ...

Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin ... landers, and rovers, scientists have revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape ...

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire ...