The European Space Agency (ESA) is finally set to launch its first Mars rover mission, as NASA just approved implementing the Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project. Part of the ...

NASA's next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth. The name was suggested by ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built - a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers - blasted off Thursday as part of an ...

At long last, SpaceX has a Mars launch firmly on the books. Company founder and CEO Elon Musk has had the Red Planet in his sights for decades. Indeed, the world's richest man has repeatedly said that ...

Elon Musk isn't the only one who wants to go to Mars. As we learned earlier this month, Europe is keen on the idea as well -- ...

A wind-powered Mars rover just aced desert tests. See how this low-cost, fuel-free design could change space exploration ...

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...

NASA announced which two companies would be tasked to build lunar rovers for its future moon base as well as the company that ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

After drilling a rock sample from a spot on Mars nicknamed “Mary Anning,” NASA’s Curiosity rover took this selfie on October 25, 2020. Now, that sample has revealed organic molecules that have never ...

The selfie was taken during Perseverance’s ongoing mission to study rocks that may reveal whether microbial life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists say the region outside Jezero Crater contains ...