NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

The Curiosity rover identified hidden caches of the mineral siderite, which could help explain why Mars lost its habitable climate.

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

It is said that those who read live many lives, but those who immerse themselves in Namita Gokhale’s short story anthology Life on Mars may find that they have traversed entire worlds — worlds where ...

Flying without any humans aboard, the probe soared past Mars and sent back photos of the planet's surface, according to NASA. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 became the first mission to successfully ...

Musk also said that the upcoming Mars mission, while not carrying a human crew, would include the Tesla humanoid robot "Optimus," which was shown to the public — sort of — last year. Anyone who has ...

On March 15, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, announced on X that an uncrewed Mars landing mission will take place by the end of next year. The operation is expected to feature Optimus, a robot ...

That is the critical question." Trump in an interview in October called on the entrepreneur to launch a Mars mission during his next term. And in his inauguration speech—in a line the president ...

After spending months and more than $250 million campaigning to elect President Trump, Elon Musk made a call late last year to help roll out his plan for humanity’s path beyond Earth.

He is working to recast its programs, reallocate federal spending and install loyalists to aid his decadeslong goal of sending people to Mars. He has also worked to win backing from Trump by ...

“What we don’t know is why these issues occur, nor what is going to happen to astronauts on longer flights such as the proposed mission to Mars.” If scientists don’t develop new ways to protect the ...