The Perseverance rover used a tool on its robotic arm to scrape away at an intriguing rock on Mars, and its cameras captured a view that no human has ever seen before.

Scientists pose for a group photo during a demonstration of an experiment led by Austrian and Israeli agencies simulating a mission to Mars near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel October 10, 2021. Reuters/Amir ...

During this very eventful year, two nations joined the Mars club, a robot plied Red Planet skies for the first time ever and humanity kicked off an ambitious interplanetary sample-return campaign.

The past 12 months have been a bumper period for missions like NASA's Perseverance Rover, with evidence of water discovered beneath the Martian surface.

Mars was explored in depth by three separate missions this year, while other scientists found a wealth of new planets, took images of black holes, spied the violent side of the universe, took a ...

The 24th Annual International Mars Society Convention begins Thursday (Oct. 14), and you can watch the whole thing online for free.

A reservoir of “hidden water", probably as ice, has been found in the largest canyon in the Solar System, on Mars, and it’s so near the surface that it could be used to sustain a future ...

The rover first touched down in the planet’s Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Since then ...

Millions of miles away, on the surface of Mars, inside an enormous crater, a little NASA rover is taking some pictures. The view is quite stunning there—miles of undisturbed cinnamon terrain ...

This year, there were vaccine breakthroughs for COVID-19 and malaria. The cicadas emerged from underground, and Perseverance landed on Mars.