Mars rovers are robotic vehicles designed to explore the surface of the Red Planet. Since 1997, space agencies have sent a ...

NASA recently shared a photo that details the vastly different landscapes its Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have spent years traversing on Mars.

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is living up to its name as its total distance traveled approaches the length of a marathon. Over the past five years, this intrepid explorer has traversed more than 26.05 ...

Engineers are developing a concept for exploring one of Mars’ least accessible environments: its underground tunnel systems. Their proposal combines a rolling robot inspired by a pillbug with ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and uncovering evidence that the Red Planet may once have supported microbial life.