At one point, the team steered Curiosity away from more treacherous terrain in favor of smoother paths to prolong the lifespan of its wheels. Then, in 2017, JPL engineers uploaded new software to ...

NASA researchers have uncovered how plumes of material spout every spring across the Red Planet’s surface as ice is warmed ...

The Perseverance rover came across an odd stone on Mars, the likes of which NASA said has never been seen, that people are ...

Holes and Gashes NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars. It set its ...

A long-lost moon could explain Mars' unusual shape and extreme terrain, according to a new hypothesis proposed by Michael Efroimsky, an astronomer at the US Naval Observatory. In a paper submitted to ...

But early in its history, the Red Planet may have had a much larger moon, which might be responsible for Mars' weird shape and extreme terrain, Michael Efroimsky, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval ...

A photo recently beamed to Earth by NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover shows significant damage to its middle right wheel, but the ...

You should probably change your tires every 20,000 miles, but that’s much harder to do when you’re a rover exploring the ...

The surface of Mars is covered in spider-like patterns, but how they formed has long been a mystery. Researchers at NASA may ...

Living and working on Mars won’t be easy, as this four-person crew recently learned, given the intense workload, extreme ...

NASA's Mars rover has been exploring the Gale Crater since 2012. That's a long time to weather dust storms, drive along the ...