Who do you call when you get a flat tyre 33.9 million miles from home? NASA’s Curiosity rover has shown off dramatic damage received from its 14 years of travels on the Red Planet. The car-sized ...

Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the fury of meteorite impacts. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of Jezero Crater—rather than its surface, which NASA’s Perseverance rover has ...

Ever lose connection to GPS? Sometimes you're in a tunnel, sometimes your phone is acting up, and sometimes you're a robotic explorer on another planet hundreds of millions of miles away from the ...

Maybe David Bowie was right with his spiders from Mars? Space scientists say they have spotted a hilly landscape that looks like spiderwebs on the Red Planet. NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six ...

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - In today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes, good news last week for Artemis II and the moon shot turned into ugly news over the weekend. And Perseverance, which has rolled across the ...

For about six months, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

These compounds are similar to fatty acids, which on Earth are most often produced by living things. A new study concluded that non-biological processes, like meteorites crashing into Mars, alone ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.