Martian dust once merely seemed like an engineering nuisance, the grit that dimmed solar panels and clogged joints. Now the same fine powder that ended a legendary rover’s life is emerging as a ...

Cheers erupted Monday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which operates the spacecraft, when InSight sent back acknowledgment of its safe arrival on Mars. Cheers erupted Monday ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

POCATELLO, Idaho - Researchers at Idaho State University are hoping to learn something about Mars from a study they're doing at the Craters of the Moon National Monument. Researchers at ISU's ...

Scientists have scanned a popular rock from Mars and they found something surprising. The meteorite, known as Black Beauty or ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

The Curiosity rover, along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, has reportedly uncovered the largest organic ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a panoramic image of Mars that resembles an Earthly sunset. For over a decade, the Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for signs of past life. The rover took the ...

NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...