NASA’s Perseverance rover examines a complex Martian rock, collects rare minerals, and sets a new driving record.

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has just unveiled its first close-up images of a bizarre and fascinating feature on Mars – large, ...

For apparently the first time ever, the Curiosity rover on Mars has been spotted mid-drive from orbit, a speck of human presence on the otherwise barren and grayscale landscape. The image, taken ...

The study, “Carbonates identified by the Curiosity rover indicate a carbon cycle operated on ancient Mars,” was published in Science (Volume 388, pages 292-297) on April 18, 2025. Benjamin M. Tutolo ...

The observation that geochemical processes were capturing and sequestering that CO 2 suggests that this imbalanced carbon cycle may have challenged Mars's ability to remain habitable." A diagram of ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ...

A British-built Mars rover stuck on Earth since the start of the war in Ukraine may soon be on its way after the UK Space Agency agreed to pay for its ride down to the Red Planet.

Ancient Mars may have been warmer, wetter, and weirder than expected, according to an accidental discovery made by NASA‘s Mars Perseverance rover, offering clues about the Red Planet‘s past ...

The god of fire. The Zhurong rover is named after a mythical god of fire. It was launched by the Chinese National Space Administration in 2020 and was active on Mars from 2021 to 2022.

Launched from Hainan, China, in July 2020, the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021 in an area known as Utopia Planitia, a plain which lies in the largest-known impact crater in the solar system.