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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

The planet is the seventh largest and is currently inhabited solely by robots. However, the space agency is working hard to ...