The MAVEN orbiter spent 11 years studying Mars and supporting rover missions before NASA declared the spacecraft ...

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars. Also, listen to audio the rover recorded during it deployment onto the ...

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sent a self-portrait back to the agency this week with a sweeping backdrop of the red planet. NASA released the new snapshot from the Perseverance rover on Tuesday, ...

NASA shared a timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on the Curiosity rover's wheels. The car-sized rover has been exploring Mars' Gale Crater since 2012, far exceeding its two-year mission plan ...

Problems in space can be complex and dangerous. But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity's woes began on April 25 ...

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover keeps cruisin’ and can’t stop, won’t stop movin’—except when its drill got stuck in some rock. The problem started on April 25. That date was supposed to be Curiosity’s ...

A rock discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contains "the most diverse collection" of the building blocks of life ever seen on the Red Planet, including seven never found there before, new ...

The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including seven that had never been detected before on the red planet. These carbon-containing ...

Dinosaurs may have ruled the Earth, but did they roam on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a rock so intriguing that the public has voted it “Image of the Week.” A bizarre picture taken by ...