Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded unusual sounds as a Martian dust devil passed directly over the robotic vehicle in 2021, ...

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

In 2012, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity photographed an outcrop with sedimentary structures resembling Earth's cross-bedded sandstones. The cross bedding, with large-scale layers sloping to the left, ...

Recently, we have been hearing good news from China's Mars exploration mission. The Mars radar research team, led by Fang Guangyou from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy ...

To exploit travel economies of scale, RAIL buys a four-in-eight-day Rail Rover. This is now known as the ‘Spirit of Scotland Travelpass’, although older users may remember it as the ‘Freedom of ...

Now, Mars. Photographs from the NASA Archive, a stunning new release from publisher Taschen, invites us on an extraordinary ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

HiRISE has snapped plenty of pictures of spacecraft on Mars, from the still-active Perseverance and Curiosity rovers, which are busy rolling across the surface, to past missions that have long gone ...