Mars exploration

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover vehicle lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

The Perseverance Rover Is NASA’s Big Move to Search for Life on Mars

Briony Horgan and Melissa Rice 04/08/2020

This summer, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is taking the...

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NASA Bids Adieu to Opportunity, the Mars Rover That Kept Going and Going

Alex Dobuzinskis 14/02/2019

Engineers lost contact with the solar-powered vehicle on June...

FILE PHOTO: NASA's InSight spacecraft, destined for the Elysium Planitia region located in Mars' northern hemisphere, undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., April 6, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Gene Blevins/File Photo

NASA Spacecraft Nears Red Planet on Mission to Detect ‘Marsquakes’

Steve Gorman 26/11/2018

NASA's first robotic lander, the Mars InSight spacecraft marks the...

This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light

How to Grow Crops on Mars If We Are to Live on the Red Planet

Briardo Llorente 01/08/2018

It is common knowledge that scientists have been preparing...

Jayant Sinha at the India-French Defence & Aerospace Cooperation seminar

India, France Hold Discussions for Inter-Planetary Missions to Mars, Venus

France's space agency, CNES, could provide support to ISRO...

A cross-section of a thick sheet of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view of Mars from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in this image released on January 11, 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS/Handout via Reuters

Thick Sheets of Water Ice Found Buried Under Mars’s Surface

Will Dunham 12/01/2018

The findings showed that ice may be more available than previously...