When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

For over 50 years, Cornell has made astronomical contributions in the ongoing efforts to explore and understand the mysterious inner workings of Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, Mars. In honor of these ...

A mosaic of two pictures showing the rover arm after scanning and sampling one of the rocks discussed in the paper. The rock itself is in the lower right and clearly shows the hole where the sample ...

"Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Its vivid color and visibility to the naked eye, its geologic kinship with Earth, its potential as our best hope for ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on Mars after a perilous six-minute descent through the planet’s thin atmosphere ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

Changes in Mars’ axial tilt (obliquity) drive shifts between polar ice caps at low obliquity and widespread mid-latitude glaciation at high obliquity. These cycles result in ice accumulating inside ...

A mosaic of two pictures showing the rover arm after scanning and sampling one of the rocks discussed in the paper. The rock itself is in the lower right and clearly shows the hole where the sample ...