NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the first ever photograph of the Curiosity Rover making tracks—both literally and metaphorically—across the Red Planet's surface. Captured by the Orbiter's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has traveled over 21.33 miles since it first landed on the Red Planet in 2012. That might not seem like very far, but it’s an impressive trek considering the vehicle only ...

The Curiosity rover is heading to a region containing formations that were possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago ...

The first mission by the ESA to the Red Planet was Mars Express. Since its launch on June 2, 2003, the orbiter has spent almost two decades probing Earth's neighbour and fundamentally altering our ...

Although its lander, Beagle 2, was lost, the orbiter remains conducting a global investigation of Mars. It maps minerals, studies the atmosphere, probes beneath the crust and investigates the ...

ISRO is working to launch the second mission to Mars, Mangalyaan-2 Mars Orbiter Mission-2 will carry four payloads to inspect certain characteristics of the Mars Mangalyaan launched nine years ago ...

Mars is a dead world ... but a new image from NASA's Odyssey orbiter shows the gargantuan mountain from a new perspective. Earth's largest volcano is Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a shield volcano with ...

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried ... to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the ...