Three rovers will launch to Mars in 2020 aiming for different landing sites. The US mission, the Chinese mission, and a joint European-Russian mission will all pack chemical and geological ...

Five U.S. rovers and one Chinese rover have reached Mars, all visiting different locations on the planet. Many focused on areas that may have once been wet and favorable for potential life.

When NASA’s newest rover Perseverance lands on Mars in February 2021, it will become the fifth rover sent by the agency to the red planet. Perseverance will act as a robotic astrobiologist ...

This summer NASA's two car-sized labs exploring Mars each discovered rocks that neither mission had seen before, revealing a more diverse history for the planet than previously thought. Three ...

The tire tracks rovers leave on the surface of Mars could one day have human footsteps next to them. Robots go there first, so that we may follow next. Helicopters like Ingenuity could even act as ...

Rover images, then and now. Sojourner’s images were an absolute sensation at the time. They looked so crisp and clear that people felt like they were transported to Mars just by looking at them.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is seen at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called 'Buckskin' on lower Mount Sharp in this low-angle self-portrait taken August 5, 2015 ...

After all, even though the Mars rover analogues couldn’t detect signatures of life in the samples, the Earth-bound instruments could. If we can get pieces of Mars back to Earth, ...

NASA’s newest robotic explorer has landed safely on Mars after a nearly 300-million-mile journey that began on a Florida launch pad. The agency’s Perseverance rover touched down on the Red ...

All the same, seeing the string of 25 images taken between 5:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. local time on November 8 gives you the soothing feeling of spending a day hanging out on Mars with Curiosity ...

NASA will reveal the next Mars 2020 rover name on Thursday, ending their seven-month-long “Name the Rover” essay contest that 28,000 students took part in nationwide.