A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

Mars exploration also inspires people around the world. Missions like the Mars rovers and the recent Ingenuity helicopter ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover.

NASA’s description of the image says it is "the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched ...