The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...

The Curiosity rover has been on Mars since 2012, and in that time it has driven more than 20 miles — which might not sound like a lot, but is a long distance for a rover traveling at slow ...

Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag landing system to bounce safely onto the surface. The Mars Pathfinder mission marked a groundbreaking moment in NASA's ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

It’s not just people who are sharing what they’re grateful for during Thanksgiving today — Mars rovers are, too. In a post on X, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012 ...

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, China's Zhurong rover has discovered traces of ...

Using a mix of China's Zhurong Mars rover's onboard instruments, scientists identified several intriguing water-related features.

While on the hunt for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a mysterious field of white ...