It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that ...

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

Minerals are like time capsules. Minerals are defined by chemical composition and crystal structure, characteristics that are achieved under specific environmental conditions. Now, researchers have ...

Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing scientists closer to an answer on whether the red planet was ever capable of supporting life. Lead ...

NASA’s latest Mars finding is notable less as a final answer than as a reminder of how the agency designed Perseverance to work: identify the most promising geology on the surface, test it with a ...