When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

On average, Martian time ticks roughly 477 millionths of a second faster than terrestrial clocks per Earth day. But the Red ...

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

Elon Musk is selling investors a future of driverless cars, robot assistants and life on Mars. The problem is there’s only ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the ...

American space agency NASA announced the Fly Foundational Robots mission in 2027, meant to test a robotic arm made by Motiv ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

For more than a decade, a steady radio whisper has linked Earth to a workhorse spacecraft circling Mars. Now that voice has ...