The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

In 2007, Nasa's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured what appeared to be a person kneeling in prayer. It made headlines around the world when the image was released in early 2008.

But for the first time, a NASA spacecraft recently captured a photo of the robotic rover from the vantage of Mars' own orbit. The U.S. space agency released the image April 24 , which the Mars ...

NASA's Mars rover has been exploring the Gale Crater since 2012. That's a long time to weather dust storms, drive along the base of a mountain and crawl over endless pointy rocks.

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...

NASA has found a rock on Mars that it has dubbed Skull Hill. The rock is known as a "float rock," and NASA has no idea where it came from.

NASA is readying to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and the agency's first, yearlong simulated mission took one giant leap toward making that goal a reality.. Marking the first completed ...

The surface of Mars is a frigid and hostile place, but it wasn’t always like that. In fact, NASA has found several pieces of evidence that suggest our neighboring Red Planet might have once been ...

The future of NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return mission remains fuzzy as the space agency weighs how to simplify and speed up the troubled project. January 7, 2025. 6 min.

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes.

Four volunteers who spent more than a year living in a 1,700-square-foot space created by NASA to simulate the environment on Mars have emerged.. The members of the Crew Health and Performance ...

NASA looking for people to live in a Mars simulator 04:54. Four volunteers have emerged from NASA's simulated Mars environment after more than a year spent on a mission that never actually ...