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.

However, ESA ruled out using Rosalind Franklin as the Mars Sample Return fetch rover because of significant differences in design. Parker said a decision on the future of ExoMars would come at ESA ...

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

The ESA says light traveling from Mars can take anywhere from 3 to 22 minutes to reach Earth, based on the two planets' orbital position. Here's what to know about the live stream event. Mars live ...

The Anon rover was built for Mars, but its interplanetary mission got derailed. The car-sized robot is now undergoing tests at a quarry near London in hopes that it could one day go to the Moon ...

The next Mars rover now has a detailed map with which to help find its way around the red planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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

The Rosalind Frankling rover will dig deeper into Mars than any previous mission in search of any remanents ... The rover will use the ESA’s ExoMars Biosignature score, which applies weight to ...

A British-built Mars rover stuck on Earth since the start of the war in Ukraine may soon be on its way after the UK Space Agency agreed to pay for its ride down to the Red Planet.

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, ...

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.