NASA has announced the next steps for its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, the ambitious plans to retrieve multiple ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the flight in an enhanced color image. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA ...

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental samples from Mars at a lower cost. The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, ...

Geologically, Mars is very reminiscent of the moon. But it also looks a lot like the Earth. It all depends on who you ask.

The ESA's Mars Express mission, which launched in 2003, captured the image using a high-resolution camera. However, despite the posts' implication that the discovery was recent as of December 2024 ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

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Rating: What's True: The photo genuinely showed an ice-capped crater on Mars. What's False: Scientists did not make the discovery in late 2024. Rather, the photo was taken years earlier, in 2018. In ...