The HiRise camera is living up to its name, capturing a rare look at the veteran rover from way up in Martian orbit.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

Science Alert points out that captured moons are generally expected to have more elliptical orbits, while both Martian moons orbit Mars in nearly perfect circles. Additionally, Mars's relatively ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in orbit of Mars has begun a series of aerobraking maneuvers with the planet’s atmosphere to lower its orbit as the craft prepares for its added task of serving as a ...

It will take two launches to carry out the Mars sample-return mission due to the limited carrying capacities of the current rockets. Two Long March-5 carrier rockets will be used for the mission, Liu ...

Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

Here, a series of light- and dark-toned bands were visible from orbit, and just last week the ... Some of these occurred as more elongate, elliptical shapes, while others possessed angular edges ...

ISRO is planning to land on Mars with the Mangalyaan-2 mission that will launch later this decade. During a recent conference ...

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army on Jan. 31, 1958. Nevertheless, despite setbacks, Vanguard 1 did reach orbit ...

They do not preclude reaching the orbit of Mars from that of Earth. That is, in principle, fairly simple. Put your spacecraft on an elliptical orbit around the Sun, carefully chosen so that it is ...

elliptical shapes, while others possessed angular edges, perhaps representing broken spherule fragments. This isn’t the first time strange spheres have been spotted on Mars. In 2004, the Mars ...