Photos captured in late October by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show InSight resting on the Martian surface. While no longer active, the rover is providing researchers new data on how ...

An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a NASA Mars rover mission. The video appears to scan the landscape before zooming in on the front of the rover. The ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Additionally, Mars recently passed perigee on Jan. 12, its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the sun ... spectacle on camera in the gorgeous photos below. Photographer Peter Jay caught ...

He was referring to the agency's Perseverance rover, which landed on the red ... fuel rocket to launch the collected samples to orbit. Once in Mars orbit, the sample container would be collected ...