Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first sample of rock for return to Earth, part of its mission to finally reveal whether the red planet ever hosted life.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover, one of the most successful interplanetary missions in history, came to a dramatic and poignant end in 2019, after 15 years of groundbreaking exploration on Mars. The rover’s ...

Explore This SectionPerseverance HomeMission OverviewRover ComponentsMars Rock SamplesWhere is Perseverance?Ingenuity Mars ...

NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

Cuts to NASA's budget proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump would likely cause further delays to Europe's ExoMars rover mission as replacement tech is not ready.

Earth is not. But that’s no excuse. Getting to Mars requires staggering precision. Launch windows open once every 26 months, and even a few seconds of delay can throw off the entire mission.

New findings by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity complicate what scientists thought they knew about when the planet dried up for good.

The rover brought along the Ingenuity helicopter, the first to fly on another planet. Smoke simulation by Joel Adams. This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, adjustable in the Settings ...