An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover.

A post shared on Facebook allegedly shows a video of a fly on top of a Mars rover. Verdict: False The video is digitally altered. Fact Check: A NASA spacecraft has just flown closer to the sun than ...

The Mars Sample Return project intends to bring Mars samples to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and soil since 2021. These samples are stored in special canisters on Mars.

An image of the Mars Perseverance rover released by NASA on February 24, 2021, has been altered and shared in online posts saying a fly was spotted on the vehicle and suggesting that NASA is ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for biosignature studies," according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

The Perseverance rover has spent more than three years on Mars scouring the area's rocks and soil for evidence that life once existed on the planet. Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ...

“Dust storms have a significant effect on rovers and landers on Mars, not to mention what will happen during future crewed missions to Mars,” Pieris said in a press release. “This dust is very light ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...