NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy the agency has never attempted for a planetary return campaign. The ...

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover investigates boxwork rock formations on Mount Sharp to gather evidence of ancient groundwater on Mars.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five years ago. In that time, NASA’s most advanced rover to date, which is about ...

The image is a composite of 2 panoramas taken at different times of day, with color added for artistic interpretation. Curiosity has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs that the ...