China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

The European Space Agency has awarded £150m to Airbus UK to complete the touchdown system for the Rosalind Franklin rover, the first European Martian rover scheduled for 2028 launch. The contract, ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover is back on course for a landmark trip to Mars, where it will probe the red planet for signs of extraterrestrial life. ESA initially designed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission and Purdue University planetary scientist Briony Horgan are approaching a new phase in the search for details about the red planet’s history and ...

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space right ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...