Every now and then, one of the robots on Mars sends back a picture of an unusual rock it has found on its journeys. After all, that's one of the reasons we sent them there. These can range from the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has officially set a new milestone on Mars, completing the longest road trip by any robot vehicle on another planet. On June 19, 2025, the six-wheeled explorer rolled a ...

A deceptive difference having to do with Earth's and Mars's gravity may be the reason why NASA's rovers get stuck in the ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, prohibiting the flow of charges. This could cause a massive charge buildup in a ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the boulders along the contact at Westport, using its Mastcam-Z Left Camera, one of a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. The ...

Using open-source software, experts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison figured out a testing flaw that often led to ...

The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil popped up 3 miles (5 ...