NASA’s Opportunity rover spent nearly 15 years exploring Mars, rewriting expectations for robotic space missions and uncovering evidence that the Red Planet may once have supported microbial life. Then,

NASA officially lost contact with the Maven probe in December. It is now clear why. This marks the end of the mission. Scientifically, it was a success.

A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first lost contact with its MAVEN orbiter at the beginning of December. Since then, all attempts to locate and reconnect with the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges and their shockwaves. This discovery helps scientists better understand ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls, which has features that may ...

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So why is NASA deciding which rocket will launch a ...

Every spacecraft NASA has sent beyond low-Earth orbit over the past two decades has relied on some version of the same brain: the RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor built by BAE Systems that runs at roughly 200 MHz.