Mars

NASA's experimental Mars helicopter has now flown eight times on the Red Planet, traveling farther than scientists hoped would be possible.

China's Zhurong rover has sent a new batch of images to Earth — including a "family photo" of the rover with its rocket-powered landing platform posing for a camera on the rock-covered surface.

For the past five weeks, Perseverance has been focused primarily on supporting and documenting the flights of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. But the rover has been doing some science work, too.

Evidence of what may be the youngest eruption seen yet on Mars suggests the Red Planet may still be volcanically active, raising the possibility it was recently habitable.

China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.

Unusual landforms on Mars' Arcadia Planitia appear to be debris-covered glaciers flowing on a flat plain.

Ingenuity aced its third-ever Martian flight early Sunday morning (April 25), adding to its already impressive resume.

A lovely new image of the Martian north pole shows the Red Planet streaked with blue.

NASA has delayed the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle's last test ended earlier than planned.

Humanity's first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff.

The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.

Perseverance's laser hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.

Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mars as a bright red sunlit crescent in deep space.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity posed for a selfie in front of a beautiful Martian rock outcrop called "Mont Mercou" after probing the area for clues about the Red Planet's past.

Mars' Perseverance rover will help pave the way for future humans to travel to the Red Planet with a small instrument known as the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE).

Oceans' worth of water may remain buried in the crust of Mars, and not lost to space as previously long thought, a new study finds.

A European spacecraft is unraveling the secrets of the weird long cloud that has been appearing again and again in the Martian sky for years.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance continues getting up to speed on the Red Planet.

A camera on the ExoMars orbiter recently captured a photo showing a very, very tiny Perseverance on Mars.