NASA’s Curiosity Rover continued its investigation of Mars with a mix of scientific observations and geological analyses. As ...

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet for decades.

While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...