Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover examines a complex Martian rock, collects rare minerals, and sets a new driving record.

A major arterial road is closed and homes evacuated in Sydney's north west after wild winds battered Carlingford ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

To land, Perseverance will use a sky crane, a system devised by NASA and used in 2012 to successfully deposit the Curiosity rover in Mars’s Gale Crater. And, for the first time, video cameras ...

A Mars rover descends to the surface of the planet with the help of the sky crane system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration ...

Imagine trying to land an SUV-sized rover on another world. That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, ...

Twelve years ago, NASA made history with its Curiosity rover by landing it on Mars using a revolutionary technique known as the sky crane maneuver. On August 5, 2012, this innovative method safely ...

Schlernitzauer's bearings were part of the crane's descent brake system that used a tether to lower the car-sized rover roughly 65 feet to the surface. “To lower it was like using a winch, only ...

The new images from NASA were released Feb. 21 and show the rover on Sept. 8, 2022 and Feb. 7, 2023. The lack of movement suggests that the rover is still in hibernation.