Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

The Skyfall mission by NASA and Virginia-based AeroVironment plans to send six helicopters to Mars in one go, having all of them landing independently in different places. They will scout for spots ...

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

Following a short break for the July 4th holiday, Perseverance drove westward to a site called "Westport," where the ...

Northrop Grumman has successfully ground tested the motor that could be used for the historic first orbital rocket launch from another planet. The solid rocket booster is intended to help return the ...

The Perseverance rover has made an astonishing discovery on Mars, as it encounters an unexpected and strange feature within the ancient, eroded rock layers at the edge of a once-thriving delta. As the ...

The Mars Perseverance Rover has made an unexpected discovery, capturing stunning images of the wreckage from its own descent vehicle, the Skycrane. This groundbreaking find unveils a hidden chapter in ...

Perseverance's advanced self-driving software enables it to process and analyse images on the move, allowing for longer daily ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest road trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was designed and built by the Jet ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 flew within about 6,000 miles of Mars, capturing the first close-up images of another planet’s surface. The much awaited images were in black and white ...