In a sci-fi leap made real, a separate spacecraft will retrieve the samples and launch them from the Martian surface—humanity ...

In the 2030s, a groundbreaking mission led by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will bring samples of Martian rock and ...

New images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover reveals a Martian dust devil as it "cannibalizes" another of its kind.

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured footage of a rare Martian weather event—two dust devils colliding, with one appearing to eat the other.

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. In a rare moment, ...

Mars is well known for its seasonal dust storms, which occur when the southern hemisphere experiences summer. Periodically, ...

American space agency NASA has begun studying the five samples of spacesuit material it sent over the Mars on the ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon ...

In the rover's latest video, the life of the slighter dust devil is abruptly cut short by a superior twister. But one ...

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming ...