Origins of mysterious marsquake settled: It was a meteoroid what done it We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind Science28 Oct 2022 | 13
Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth Science26 Oct 2022 | 31
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water' Science20 Oct 2022 | 13
Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much Science11 Oct 2022 | 27
Japan tests probe to land on Martian moon Phobos, bring a chunk of it back to Earth COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window Science06 Oct 2022 | 20
Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth Science30 Sep 2022 | 30
Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' Science16 Sep 2022 | 16
The answer to 3D printing equipment on Mars might lie in the Red Planet's dust Talk about dirt cheap Science07 Sep 2022 | 27
How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance Science01 Sep 2022 | 42
NASA has MOXIE, but rivals reckon they can do better for oxygen on Mars Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator Science18 Aug 2022 | 39
NASA: Mars rocks won't make it back to Earth until 2033 Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive Science28 Jul 2022 | 32
ESA kicks ExoMars rover down the road, to 2026 at best The way forward to Mars is cancelled (you meant the meeting, right?) Science20 Jul 2022 | 4
Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break Science14 Jul 2022 | 52
ESA's 2030+ roadmap envisions Europeans on the Moon and Mars But the agency is distinctly aware that it needs more autonomy Science05 Jul 2022 | 23
NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Science22 Jun 2022 | 7
Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? Science22 Jun 2022 | 51
Mars helicopter needs patch to fly again after sensor failure NASA engineers continue to show Ingenuity as uplinking process begins Software07 Jun 2022 | 16
NASA's 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Video Ingenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem Science30 May 2022 | 35
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels The little lander that couldn't (any longer) Science18 May 2022 | 62
Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply Science09 May 2022 | 33
ExoMars rover launch axed over Russia tensions ESA will need to source a different rocket, lander, and descent stage in time for next window in 2024 Science17 Mar 2022 | 32
Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying Ingenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission Science16 Mar 2022 | 14
ESA-Russia Mars rover launch on ice after Ukraine invasion Rosalind Franklin can't catch a break Science01 Mar 2022 | 6
NASA's InSight probe emerges from Mars dust storm Plucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard? Science10 Feb 2022 | 47
NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build Mars parcel pickup rocket The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said – but Perseverance samples just might make it Science08 Feb 2022 | 53
NASA's Curiosity finds signs of ancient life on Mars. Or maybe not. More data needed Rover heats up samples, sniffs carbon signature associated with biological processes on Earth Science19 Jan 2022 | 27
NASA's Mars InSight trips into safe mode and ESA's Sentinel-1B gives scientists the silent treatment Space is hard Science12 Jan 2022 | 22
Perseverance on the rocks: Pebbles clog up the rover's Martian sample collection Engineers try to clear material so Mars bot can continue drilling Science11 Jan 2022 | 34
Mars helicopter mission (which Apache says is powered byLog4j) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies Science16 Dec 2021 | 40
ExoMars parachutes just about good enough to land rover safely on the Red Planet Nobody wants to see Rosalind Franklin scattered over Oxia Planum Science14 Dec 2021 | 38
ESA's Mars Express picks up plaintive bleeps of China's Zhurong rover, adding much-needed comms redundancy We're all ears Science02 Dec 2021 | 6
It's fake ooze, don't fall for fake ooze: Alien fossils found on Mars might just be simple chemistry, uni pair warn Similar mistakes have been made in the past, after all Science18 Nov 2021 | 37
FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water Thanks, science Science29 Sep 2021 | 23
NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise? Science29 Sep 2021 | 26
Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine Science14 Sep 2021 | 52
NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though... Science14 Sep 2021 | 11
Perseverance rover drilled a rock on Mars and probably snaffled a core sample Now to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan Science03 Sep 2021 | 21
Perseverance to take a second stab at Martian rocks ... but first it has to scratch'n'sniff Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth Science27 Aug 2021 | 9
Everyone's going to Mars: Rocket Lab joins the Red Planet Fan Club An interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket Science23 Aug 2021 | 6
China's Mars rover assigned extended mission after exceeding life expectancy But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun Science23 Aug 2021 | 15
NASA blames the wrong kind of Martian rock for Perseverance sample failure Not a hardware or software bug, for a change Science12 Aug 2021 | 37
NASA comes up empty on Perseverance rover's first Mars sample drilling attempt Suspects rocks are the problem, not probe Science09 Aug 2021 | 25
NASA warns Mars: We're about to laser your rocks and start stealing them Perseverance prepares to snaffle first sample for eventual retrieval Science22 Jul 2021 | 21
NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans? AI + ML02 Jul 2021 | 6
NASA's InSight lander expected to survive most of summer before choking to death on Martian dust Why can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away Science28 Jun 2021 | 27
Mars race: China dreams of nuclear rockets, manned bases, and space elevators We're looking forward to the late 21st-century colony wars Science25 Jun 2021 | 23
Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars Science11 Jun 2021 | 13
Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes Science24 May 2021 | 12
Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent Science19 May 2021 | 45
China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet Updated 'An important step in our country’s interplanetary exploration journey' – state media Science14 May 2021 | 88
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world Video NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick Science08 May 2021 | 57
Known software issue grounds Ingenuity Mars copter as it attempted fourth flight NASA chose not to re-install OS and live with a 15 percent failure rate Science30 Apr 2021 | 56
We admire your MOXIE, Earthlings: Perseverance rover gizmo produces oxygen for first time on Mars First, COVID vaccinations, now atmosphere generators for an alien world? We're really cooking on gas now Science23 Apr 2021 | 35
Watch this: Ingenuity – Earth's first aircraft to fly on another planet – take off on Mars Video History in the making for the tiny open-source-powered whizzing chopper Science20 Apr 2021 | 51
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away Science13 Apr 2021 | 49
NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history Fabric from Wright brothers' aircraft makes it to Mars Science25 Mar 2021 | 43
Listen to The Sound of Perseverance: Not the death metal album, but NASA's Mars rover on the move Rolling over the Martian stones toward a drop-off for the Ingenuity Helicopter Science18 Mar 2021 | 31
Where did the water go on Mars? Maybe it's right under our noses: Up to 99% may still be in planet's crust New science challenges theory of liquid lost in space Science18 Mar 2021 | 21
NASA shows Mars that humans can drive a remote control space tank at .01 km/h Perseverance takes first drive around landing spot named in honor of seminal sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler Science08 Mar 2021 | 29
NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video Video See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world Science23 Feb 2021 | 119
Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics Difficult entry, descent, landing process over, now for a search for ancient microbial life Science18 Feb 2021 | 108
First UAE interplanetary probe now in orbit around Mars – two craft from China, US near Red Planet, too Orbital mechanics leads to rush hour Science10 Feb 2021 | 10