Here’s how it works. Spirit was one of two Mars rovers launched by NASA in 2003 as part of the $800 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. The rover arrived on Mars in January 2004 to ...

NASA has released a new document that highlights planned programmatic paradigm shifts in Mars exploration over the next 20 ...

NASA has made history by conducting the first-ever aircraft accident investigation on another planet. The focus of the ...

Perseverance’s arsenal of scientific instruments were thoughtfully selected to support NASA’s overarching human exploration goals. The data gained from the newest Mars rover will help ...

For the two Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions, with $800 million on the line, the stakes were especially high—perhaps no more so than for the engineers in charge of designing the missions ...

After an arduous ascent to the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover is doing a little sightseeing. The most recent stop on its Red Planet road trip? A roughly 656-foot-long (200 ...

Mars has long been a source of fascination, stirring imaginations and inspiring dreams of exploration. Decades of research ...

The control centre can run simulations before sending commands up to Mars The control centre that will run day-to-day operations during the Rosalind Franklin rover's exploration of Mars in 2021 ...

Artwork: The Airbus "fetch rover" was a key part of the plan ... The agency's head of Mars exploration, Francois Spoto, said this could represent an alternative goal for British engineers.

Using rovers, the crew could begin exploration of the ... Using Apollo as a model, anyone seeking a decision to mount a human expedition to Mars must ask a critical question: What political ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has concluded its exploration of the Gediz Vallis channel on Mars, revealing clues about the planet's past climate and geology. The rover discovered rare sulphur-rich stones ...