NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

However, Mars is extremely cold and subject to severe dust storms. The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong ...

Surrounded by hundreds of onlookers, Hirokuni Kakiuchi stood with his neck craned toward the ceiling at the 2011 Tokyo ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing ... But ballooning costs and mission delays had begun to make the goal of returning the ...