Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...

The flowing celestial robes in Dunhuang murals, featuring flying goddesses, and the legendary attempt by Wan Hu to reach ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work ...

In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the scientific evidence ...

The two Mars Exploration Rovers launched separately in June and July of 2003 on Boeing Delta II rockets. Spirit was the first onto the Martian surface on Jan. 3, 2004, bouncing around 30 times on ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity.

This is particularly evident in the film’s tense stretches in the control room after the rovers begin to encounter the trials of life on Mars. The director Ryan White and his team had free rein ...

NASA planned on its 2003 Mars Exploration Rover mission lasting 90 days. That was assuming the two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, launched without mishap, survived the 6½-month journey, and ...