The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 ...

now scheduled for launch to Mars in 2028. The downside of grab-and-go is that you get just one sample from one site, which limits the science you can do. NASA has instead sent Perseverance to ...

"Mars' time and position of reappearance is difficult to judge since the planet lies concealed behind the moon beforehand," the league said. Why is it called the Wolf Moon? The mo ...

The timing of Mars' disappearing act will vary depending on your location. It'll be visible from the contiguous US. The Astronomical League published a map with ... to NASA's Perseverance and ...

On Monday night, we will see the highlight of the month, as the full wolf moon occults (covers) Mars. In this 2022 astropic, the full moon and Mars had a close encounter. This will be similar to ...

Leshin's X post included a link to a disaster-relief fundraising site devoted to helping those JPL folks ... JPL — which runs NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rover missions, among many other ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has been collecting samples in cigar-sized titanium tubes as part of the agency’s quest to uncover evidence of ancient microbial life.

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth ... which let go of 855 employees and 100 on-site contractors in 2024. The NASA-led option that Nelson suggested ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

One would be to use a version of the sky crane system that was used to land both the Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity safely on the Martian surface. The other would be to use a heavy lander ...