When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth. Humans should expand into the cosmos in the same way that, were the ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

What innovative rovers can be developed to advance Mars surface exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for ...

On04, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to ...

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...