NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air to rush in and start rotating. As this spinning air column accelerates, it ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

NASA is hoping to answer questions about alien life by sending humans to Mars in the 2030s for the very first time, but it ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

In 2018, NASA landed the first seismograph on the red planet. The InSight lander (short for Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was retired in 2022, but while it was active, measured ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's wish to follow the water on Mars just got a helping hand. Scientists have released a new ...

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...