Large features across Mars' terrain get official names, while mission teams get to choose silly nicknames for rocks, cliffs, and meteorites.
Mission controllers spent nearly a full week in the attempt to regain contact with the rotorcraft, the result of a challenging Martian landscape.
The Zhurong rover was scheduled to wake up from its hibernation in December, but has remained idle on the same Martian spot for nearly a year.
The rover’s mission has picked up pace 12 years on, thanks to NASA's monumental update.
The space agency's proposed longterm strategy for exploring the Red Planet involves lower-cost missions and paving the way for humans to land on Mars.
China's inaugural Mars mission was scheduled to resume after a precautionary winter pause, but controllers can't seem to make contact with the rover or orbiter.
A documentary streaming on Amazon Prime Video tells the very human story of two robots on Mars.
The 19-year-old Mars Express has now relayed data for seven different Mars ground missions, NASA's Perseverance rover being the latest.
The four-wheeled robot was supposed to collect sample tubes on Mars, but a change to the mission left the rover without a purpose. That might change.
NASA announced an overhaul of its ambitious plan to bring samples of Mars to Earth.
The four-day test involved a fleet of robots that included other rovers, a stationary lander, and a centipede-like crawler.
New images of rock formations offer clues to what Mars was like billions of years ago.
The Mars probe will continue scientific operations until late August at least, NASA said.
Hours of audio indicate that the Red Planet stifles sound, especially lower frequency noises.
The commemorative stamps include scenes of Martian dunes, robotic rovers, and ground technicians hard at work.
No spacecraft is safe from the Red Planet’s swirling dust.
The dust-covered spacecraft detected landmark geophysical events on Mars, despite significant obstacles.
NASA's Perseverance rover waited and waited for its buddy's signal.
Ingenuity got an aerial view of the hardware that helped the Perseverance rover safely land on Mars.
Mission controllers are taking advantage of the rover's “thinking while driving capability" to push the limits on Mars.
