An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

Steeped in the United States' space race with the Soviet Union, the pursuit of a deeper understanding of Mars' resources and ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

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 ...

While on the hunt for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a mysterious ... working to understand what formed parts of the channel, including the Pinnacle ...

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.

Carried to Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover, Ingenuity was dropped to the surface of the red planet in April 2021 and made its initial flight two weeks later. Built primarily to find out if ...

Have you seen the weird “alien doorway” on Mars image that went viral on social media? It was sent back by NASA’s Curiosity rover on May 7, 2022 as it traveled through the red planet’s ...

As a curious and intrepid civilization wanting to learn more about the unknown parts of our solar system ... which shows the Mars Perseverance rover's backshell and parachute as seen from 26 ...

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.