NASA scientists are storing some of these rocks for a future mission to bring samples back to Earth. As we prepare to one day send humans to Mars, these discoveries are helping shape our understanding ...

A new NASA study is putting future astronaut gear to the test—right on the Martian surface—with the help of the Perseverance rover. At left is NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating ...

But the rover has been exploring the red planet since 2021, and it’s been carefully amassing a rock collection that could change our understanding of Mars’ history, how it compares to our own ...

While ascending Mount Sharp, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has had to swing around a small ridgeline dubbed "Devil’s Gate." On its 4,500th sol (or Martian day), NASA's Mars rover Curiosity ...

“But up here on the crater rim, there are new and intriguing rocks everywhere the rover turns ... formed at least 3.9 billion years ago during Mars’ earliest geologic period, and may have ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...

You wanna drive a Mars rover? Well sorry, but you can't. You could, however, buy and drive a li'l four-wheel-drive rover that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via 4G cellular networks.

A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong rover to navigate and conduct scientific investigations on Mars.

Dust devils are not only whipping up dust on Mars – they’re revealing new secrets about the planet’s atmosphere. In a recent video, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded a rare and spectacular scene on ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a large dust devil (on the right) consuming a smaller, fainter twister (on the left in the foreground). NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / INTA-CSIC ...

In 2034, the first person landed on Mars. While she didn’t go there physically, she still experienced the planet intimately. She explored an ancient river delta and built a base. She put up a ...