It’s not just people who are sharing what they’re grateful for during Thanksgiving today — Mars rovers are, too. In a post on X, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012 ...

Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia ...

Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag landing system to bounce safely onto the surface. The Mars Pathfinder mission marked a groundbreaking moment in NASA's ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Here’s how it works. Spirit was one of two Mars rovers launched by NASA in 2003 as part of the $800 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. The rover arrived on Mars in January 2004 to ...

New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate ...

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Since landing its first rover on Mars in 1997, NASA has pushed the boundaries of exploration with increasingly larger and more sophisticated robotic explorers. Each mission builds on the lessons ...

Mars and its tantalizing mysteries have spurred many space missions, each one revealing something new and compelling. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been a prolific source of remarkable discoveries ...

In recent years, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Defense and Space have tested the capabilities of different Mars rover designs and are currently testing Opteran’s insect-inspired ...

China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found evidence of a coastline from a short-lived ancient ocean, adding to decades of research into the red planet’s watery past. Data collected during the ...