The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

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

The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red ...

but a European orbiter called Mars Express arrived safely. So did Spirit and then, three weeks later, Opportunity. After slamming into the atmosphere and descending by parachute, each rover ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity's landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit ...

The newly discovered rock type was found littered across the landing site of a future Mars rover mission due to launch in 2028. In a study published last month in the Journal of Geophysical ...