mars

Cloud Spotting

Citizen scientists, unite!

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.

Carbon-Based

Was Mars once teeming with life?

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.

Solar Assassins

"Are you out of your minds? Not just no, but hell no."

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.

Mars Race

Watch out, NASA.

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted something interesting tucked into a boulder — but NASA confirmed it was just a regular ol' piece of human trash.

Mars Trash

Hey, knock that off!

NASA Accuses NASA of Littering on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has unknowingly been traveling with a pet rock companion since at least early February, covering over five miles.

Pop Rock

"We might confuse a future Mars geologist who finds it out of place!"

There's a Rock Stuck in the Mars Rover's Wheel, NASA Complains

NASA's Mars helicopter has run into a bit of trouble 28 successful flights and well over an entire dusty Earth year into its mission on the Red Planet.

Stayin' Alive

The team will have to get creative.

Navigation Sensor on Mars Helicopter Dead, NASA Says

Now, we get to see Curiosity's next fascinating discovery: two ancient "spikes" of cemented rock that almost look like the petrified remains of ancient trees.

Piqued Curiosity

What the heck are those?

NASA Rover Spots Extremely Weird Spikes on Mars

NASA's InSight Mars lander took "what is likely to be its final selfie," according to a NASA update, a heartbreaking end to a spectacular mission.

Ashes to Ashes

Looking pretty rough, buddy!

NASA Lander Looks Beat as Hell in Final Selfie Before Death

That "door" on Mars is a rock formation on Mount Sharp and it's hilariously small. A new panorama taken by the Curiosity rover shows more detail.

Open Sesame

It's more like a dog door.

It Turns Out That "Door" on Mars Is Hilariously Tiny

During a talk on NASA's objectives for human space exploration, we got an early glimpse of what a 30 day mission to the surface of Mars could look like.

Round Trip

Here's what a 30 day stay on the surface of Mars could look like.

NASA Reveals Early Plans to Send Two Astronauts to Surface of Mars

NASA revealed that Insight's science operations are coming to a close later this summer. By December, they say, the lander will "become inoperative."