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NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers capture sweeping Mars panoramas (video)
By Samantha Mathewson published
New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ancient water and billions of years of geological change.

Ice melts in the springtime on Mars | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2026
By Chelsea Gohd published
Springtime has arrived at the Red Planet's Chasma Boreale, as this photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows.

Ancient volcanic ash seen blowing across Mars in new spacecraft images
By Keith Cooper published
New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet.

Japan's audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad
By Andrew Jones published
The complex MMX mission aims to shed light on the origins of Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, bringing Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.

NASA's Curiosity rover finds building blocks of life on Mars. Scientists aren't sure how they got there
By Leonard David published
NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

Scientists found a 'bathtub ring' on Mars. Could it be evidence of an ancient Red Planet ocean?
By Charles Q. Choi published
A huge geological structure on Mars resembling a bathtub ring may be evidence of an ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet.

This life-hunting rover may be SpaceX's 1st-ever Mars launch
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX will launch Europe's life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover toward Mars in 2028 — but not aboard the company's Starship megarocket.

Wild new 'Skyfall' Mars mission would drop 6 scout helicopters onto the Red Planet from the air
By Mike Wall published
NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters to Mars.

Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: 'The timing was extremely lucky'
By Robert Lea published
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet's oldest cratered regions
By Samantha Mathewson published
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
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