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Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...
Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: ...
Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.
When you are scheduled to participate in Science Operations for the rover's weekend plan, you know it's going to be a busy ...
That alert was noticed by space physicist Christina Lee of the University of California, Berkeley, the space weather lead for NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter. Lee, in turn, issued a notice to other Mars ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars — a cosmic photo op that helped scientists fine-tune an ...
Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet (photo) — NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images ...
Mars, the other world, followed a different path. Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes.
Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water. Across vast highlands near the Martian equator, deep river-like valleys ...
A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble. A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists ...
The unexpected change comes on the heels of the White House 2026 budget proposal, which includes increased funding for Mars-related projects by $1 billion and the promise to pay for the launches.