TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s newest rover, the massive Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, is less than two months away from plunging into the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet — a harrowing seven-minute ...

The Mars rover is rapidly closing in on the Red Planet with less than 640,000 miles to go as of Thursday morning. The NASA rover is targeting the Red Planet's Jezero Crater for its mission, in the ...

PASADENA, Calif. — A car-size NASA rover touched down on the Martian surface late Sunday night (Aug. 5), executing a stunning series of maneuvers that seem pulled from the pages of a sci-fi novel.

When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a high‑risk landing. It opened a new era in which rovers became the primary way ...