ESA's rover twin, known as the Ground Test Model, had the chance to give its drill a workout in a test bed filled with rocks and soil layers. ESA released a video showing the drill at work.

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

China is positioning itself to take the lead in one of the most coveted goals in planetary science—returning samples from ...

ESA said the missions would tackle the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. ... Seven years ago a Nasa Mars rover, Curiosity, explored a part of the planet named after Torridon.

ESA initially designed the Mars rover alongside Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, as part of the ExoMars programme. The vehicle was set to launch in 2022, ...