Scientists at NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder have said goodbye to a spacecraft that has spent the last 11 years analyzing the atmosphere of Mars and how it became a rocky planet. The ...

There's a Mars graveyard on the surface, too. Among the many robots being buried by the wind-blown red dirt are NASA's Spirit ...

In the region where the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life, clay deposits extend beyond previous ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. Subscribe to read this story ...

The NASA spacecraft MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, had been orbiting around the Red Planet since ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and ...

Somewhere on the floor of Jezero crater, a stack of flat rock slabs is sitting in an arrangement so orderly it looks like someone placed them there on purpose. Nobody did. The nearest hands are ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they end up this way? Did Perseverance knock them over? So many questions.

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NASA shared a timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on the Curiosity rover's wheels. The car-sized rover has been exploring Mars' Gale Crater since 2012, far exceeding its two-year mission plan ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.

Problems in space can be complex and dangerous. But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity's woes began on April 25 ...