NASA’s $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, carried out a challenging landing on Mars early Monday after traveling hundreds ... This jaw-dropping landing process, involving a sky crane and the world’s ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with ...

NASA has officially reinvented the Mars rover, making it smarter, faster, and more advanced than ever before. With AI-powered navigation, upgraded mobility, and next-gen scientific instruments, this ...

Mars may have once been home to sun-soaked, sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves according to a new study. Mars may have once been home to sun-soaked, sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with ...

An international team of scientists, including Penn State researchers, used data from the Zhurong Mars rover to identify hidden layers of rock under the planet’s surface that strongly suggest ...

Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination for a summer holiday. According to scientists, hidden underneath the red planet is evidence that there were once ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

The researchers claim to have found beach deposits from an ancient Martian ocean. Rovers exploring Mars study many aspects of the planet, including the geology, soil and atmosphere. They're often ...