Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

A peculiar satellite image of Antarctica has sparked fresh debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life. A Google Earth ...

Every so often, Mars rovers and orbiting spacecraft snap pictures that make us do a double take. The Red Planet has a knack ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for decades. But ask when and you’ll be told ‘one day’. The planet holds ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...

The Perseverance Mars rover has collected a rock sample on Mars unlike any other it has picked up so far. NASA's Perseverance rover is currently exploring hills and rocky outcrops along the rim of ...

NASA's Rover found ripples in Martian rock that resemble the wave patterns on a sandy lake bed on Earth. The ripples could ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. Future human explorers on Mars may one day gaze at the red planet’s clouds.

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...