When the Mars Rover uttered its last words in 2018, many people responded to the poignant — and emotional — message sent by ...

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in recent years, with plans to send crewed missions to the red planet ahead of ...

For the past four years, NASA 's Perseverance rover has rambled over a region of Mars where scientists say a strong river ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

Mars is back on the agenda. During his address to a joint session of Congress in March, President Donald Trump said the ...

But the rover has been exploring the red planet since 2021, and it’s been carefully amassing a rock collection that could change our understanding of Mars’ history, how it compares to our own ...

In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, Trump said the U.S. "will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars." ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.