Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Currently gliding through Gemini’s stars, Mars has fascinated humanity for millennia—from ancient cultures who named it for warriors and gods, to modern scientists discovering its hidden waters and ...

The geological data was collected by the Chinese rover on Mars, Zhurong, which landed on the fourth rock from the sun back in 2021 — staking out an area known as the Utopia Planitia, a 2,100 ...

However, even though dust covers everything on Mars, it’s difficult to study and presents an enigma, said Briony Horgan, co-investigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of ...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over time.

A new study, based on data from China’s Zhurong rover, gives the ‘clearest evidence yet’ that billions of years ago, Mars had vast oceans, with buried coastlines beneath its now barren and ...

Read More: NASA's Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk “Therefore,” the authors wrote, “we conclude that the dip reflectors under the Zhurong landing ...

Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination for a summer holiday. According to scientists, hidden underneath the red planet is evidence that there were once ...

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of “Marker Band Valley” at two times of day on April 8. Color was added to a combination of both ...