The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June last year and was declared officially dead on ... manager of the Mars Exploration Rover project.

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

Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag ... The agency suspected the cause of the failure was rooted in a dead battery that was affected by repeated charges ...

The Mars rover teams have the added challenge of a thin atmosphere that makes slowing the landers down even harder. There are many variables that affect how much a parachute can slow an object down.

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front of the sun. Phobos — one of Mars' two moons, along with the ...