NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

An assessment in September 2023 also found more bad news ... a full 20 years after the rover first launched to Mars. — NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars. As shown in the imagery below, the NASA robot investigated dried-up lake beds and captured views of ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

Now, NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, suggesting the presence of standing bodies of liquid water billions of years ago. Curiosity discovered the ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been skygazing recently and spotted ... rover cloud imagery from the Jezero Crater in early 2023. Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater and the base of the ...

NASA recent advancements in shape memory alloy (SMA) technology are creating a better future for more durable and versatile ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up ... the agency's Perseverance rover, which landed on the red ...