The unmanned MMX, set to blast off from Tanegashima Space Center in the coming months, could also lay the groundwork for ...

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

Curiosity is still going strong on Mars after nearly 15 years, and Perseverance operators say the newer rover is doing great ...

NASA said it recently completed testing of a lithium-fed electromagnetic thruster, reaching more than five times the power of ...

Curiosity has entered a broad Martian valley covered with small honeycomb-like fractures that stretch far beyond earlier ...

Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived ...

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that could support living things—but it isn’t a definitive sign of ancient organ ...

Rocks normal for Mars contained a gemstone mineral scientists didn't expect to find. (Ollila et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 2026) When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale ...

On Earth, a similar process occurs when wind generates rolling waves and vortices as it sweeps across the surface of water.

For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been trudging up Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain at the center of the Gale Crater on Mars. Scientists believe lakes and ...