To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built a simulated Martian landscape on Earth and took the new rover out for a test drive. The Tianwen-1 Mars ...

A map of the Perseverance Mars rover marathon – credit, NASA. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just completed a special ...

"This terrain is a time capsule from the earliest period of the solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has released ...

This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy.

This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on the red planet. It showed how NASA used an unconventional airbag landing ...

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On August 6 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars and kicked off a new era of Martian exploration. It was NASA's fourth rover mission to Mars over the past 20 years; previous missions ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of a Martian dust devil consuming a smaller one on the surface of the red planet. Dust devils are "swirling, sometimes towering columns of air and dust," NASA ...

On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled 16 miles (26 ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...