A weird hole photographed by Curiosity on 19 August 2026. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Alone in a dried-up crater lake millions of ...

A new analysis of ancient rocks on Mars has revealed organic carbon compounds that may provide new clues about the planet’s ...

"Scientists usually assume that the interiors of planetary bodies are generally spherically symmetric, but this is not ...

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter was never supposed to last this long. NASA engineers built and tested the first self-powered aircraft to fly on another planet to answer a simple question: Could the ...

Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a ...

New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

After more than 70 successful flights, a broken rotor ended the remarkable and groundbreaking Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars. Now, NASA is considering how a larger, more capable helicopter could ...

Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars. In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...