Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening to the seismic pings of more than 1,300 marsquakes.
In today's plan, we got to exercise our combined APXS-MAHLI touch and go capability.
The first samples to be taken from Mars and sent to Earth will be sourced from Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater floor and nearby ancient delta.
In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars, later named Phobos and Deimos after the Greek for '…
A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars.
Scientists who study Mars on Thursday revealed the remarkable Christmas gift they received from the planet last year.
The long Sol 3631 drive went well, leaving the rover near exposures of nodule-rich bedrock.
As the goals of Mars exploration expand to include sample return, it becomes important to protect Earth from potential extraterrestrial sources of contamination.
When Mars' first samples return to Earth, scientists should be on the lookout for ancient sleeping bacteria, a new study has found.
We continue our drive through "Marker Band valley", an area of high interest scientifically, due to strong evidence of sulfates from orbital mapping.
Have you ever seen faces on Mars? What about weirdly shaped rocks resembling animals and bones?
According to new research, Mars may have been born a blue and water-covered world, long before the Earth had even finished forming.
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals.
For the first time in a little while we're at a new location after a drive in the last plan, which means new targets for the Geo team to investigate, and slightly different viewsheds for ENV to work with.
If there ever was life on Mars - and that's a huge "if" - conditions during the planet's infancy most likely would have supported it, according to a study led by University of Arizona researchers.
