NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and ...

Editor at Large For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they ...

Elon Musk isn't the only one who wants to go to Mars. As we learned earlier this month, Europe is keen on the idea as well -- ...

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found some of the oldest rocks ever studied on Mars at an outcrop named "Arethusa." ...

New footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to remove a rock, dubbed Atacama, that became stuck on a drill for six days.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even then, it would take 12 years for the first phase of MSR to at last fly. On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on ...