Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th close-up view of the Red Planet.

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

LONDON -- It turns out the Beagle has landed after all -- but it never called home. The spacecraft Beagle-2 went missing on Christmas Day 2003, when it was supposed to land on Mars and start ...

The bright irregularly-shaped feature in area “a” of the image is Opportunity’s parachute, now lying on the martian surface. Near the parachute is the cone-shaped “backshell” that helped protect ...

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...

Searching for water on Mars often feels like chasing a flicker of hope in a cold and quiet world. You read about dried riverbeds, ancient lakes, and canyons carved by water that vanished long ago. So ...

On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission. Some of the best cameras ever launched into space are on MRO, and the spacecraft has taken some seriously amazing, photos ...

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS).

Before-and-after images taken with the Context Camera (CTX) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact site on Jan. 16, 2012, at left, and on April 6, 2014, at right. [Read the Full Story] ...