Nearly 25 years ago, the Pathfinder spacecraft explored a suspected floodplain on Mars. Unbeknownst to NASA at the…
Sadly, David Bowie was wrong about spiders on Mars, despite this exciting new image of what appears to a gigantic blue…
NASA may have declared its Opportunity rover lost, but we’ll always have its data and bank of raw images. The mission…
The drilling instrument on NASA’s Insight was put through its first test last week, but the inaugural digging session…
Scientists report finding evidence for an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on Mars, according to a new study. The…
By using the barren Atacama Desert in Chile as a stand-in for Mars, researchers have shown that it’s possible to use an…
Dramatic dried-up river channels over a mile wide and 650 feet deep have been detected on Mars, showcasing how the Red P…
Instruments aboard NASA’s InSight lander are now gathering meteorological data from the Martian surface, allowing for…
As we remember the now-officially-dead Opportunity rover this week, one fact keeps sticking out to me: That machine…
NASA has officially called an end to the historic Opportunity rover mission, ending a spectacular, 14-year adventure on…
NASA declared at a press conference today that its Opportunity rover is officially no longer functional, marking the…
The twisting terrain of Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars has been home to NASA’s Curiosity for over a year, but it’s time for…
A brutal dust storm engulfed Mars last summer. The planet-wide tempest spared the nuclear-powered Curiosity rover, but…
Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the…
A pair of small satellites that joined the InSight mission on its way to Mars haven’t been heard from in over a…
A dome placed over InSight’s seismometer will now protect the sensitive device from Martian wind and extreme…
Scientists working with the Curiosity rover used a piece of its navigation equipment—an accelerometer like the one in…
NASA’s beloved Mars rover Opportunity has been silent for months after getting swept up in an enormous dust storm on…
When something goes terribly wrong on a long trip to Mars, two women will go head to head to figure out the best way …
The U.S. government may be in partial shutdown mode, but operations to configure instruments critical to NASA’s InSight…
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