See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

NASA has shared a fascinating animation showing the route taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars since its arrival there in February 2021. Perseverance is NASA’s most advanced Mars rover to date, and ...

When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive into one of the most intriguing discoveries of the mission. The fractured ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025, the 4,447th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock." Perseverance, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says Perseverance's new image is "one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling some ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

NASA 's Perseverance rover has discovered a highly unusual rock lying on the surface of Mars. The lumpy boulder, which has a metal-rich composition, is most likely a meteorite that crash-landed on the ...

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Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...

Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars. Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing ...