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The Perseverance Mars rover poses against a dramatic backdrop of ancient Martian terrain in a new selfie. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sent a self-portrait back to the agency this week with a sweeping backdrop of the red planet. NASA released the new snapshot from the Perseverance rover on Tuesday, ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they end up this way? Did Perseverance knock them over? So many questions.

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars. Also, listen to audio the rover recorded during it deployment onto the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is living up to its name as its total distance traveled approaches the length of a marathon. Over the past five years, this intrepid explorer has traversed more than 26.05 ...

To make up for Maven's lost relay capacity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and European orbiters have adjusted ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spent more than three and a half years exploring Mars's Jezero Crater, building up a remarkable catalog of mineral discoveries. In a new study published in the Journal of ...

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence ...

While it has enabled many exciting discoveries, the Curiosity rover has also encountered its share of setbacks. The latest left NASA engineers speechless. On April 25, the Mars rover drilled into a ...