NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, more autonomous exploration.

Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was not what it is today. Once, it bubbled and rippled with frothy waves, just like the Earth. But when swirling masses of gas and dust were accumulated by ...

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A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout ...

The need for humans to better understand the world beyond the stars has led to groundbreaking achievements. This fascination with space helped us achieve milestones such as the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, ...

NASA is moving forward with plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth for more intense study than is possible on the red planet, and its robotic explorers are already laying the groundwork. The ...

NASA's newest Mars rover came up empty Friday in its first attempt to pick up a rock sample to eventually be brought back to Earth. NASA's InSight lander has detected two strong, clear quakes ...