Smooth launch for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

The rover was launched successfully July 30, 2020. Its mission is to search for signs of past microbial life and collect rock and dust samples …

UAE’s Hope orbiter is on way to the Red Planet

The aim of the mission is to understand weather on Mars through all seasons and study how atmospheric oxygen and hydrogen escape into space

Martian surprise: NASA’s Perseverance finds igneous rocks altered by water

Study adds to the evidence that Mars transformed from wet to a dry planet

In search of ancient life: NASA Perseverance lands on Mars

The rover will now begin its two-year-long investigation to assess the geology and past climate of the Red planet

Lake found on Mars by scientists

The underground lake is about 20 kms wide and is on Mars’ southern ice cap

Mars’ imbalanced energy budget can be fuelling dust storms. What this says about climate change on Earth

Mars also experienced global warming and climate change

Artemis: How ever changing US space policy may push back the next Moon landing

A delay of any more than a year would move Artemis 3 beyond the end of President Biden’s first term in office

MOM gears up for orbit insertion

Scientists uncover sheets of ice buried at Mars’ north pole

Composition of these layers could further shed light on the history of Mars and if it ever had favourable conditions to support life

Major floods on Mars? China’s rover finds evidence

Zhurong rover's first radar imager results analysed two interesting underground layers

NASA finds evidence of water on Mars

If water exists now, life too could be found on the planet

Spirit and Opportunity: Celebrating 10 years on Mars

‘It will open up a new area of Mars exploration’

As NASA's Ingenuity touched down on Mars, Down To Earth spoke to Ingenuity’s chief engineer J (Bob) Balaram on the significance of the …

Meet Mars: NASA rover is on the Red Planet

The Perseverance Rover landed on the Jezero Crater February 18, 2021 to look for ancient microscopic life. Dozens of high-resolution images were …

New study finds Mars’ core less dense that Earth’s. How it impacts the Red Planet

Unlike Earth's core, Mars' innermost layer cannot generate magnetic field

Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft at ISAC

Video courtesy ISRO

Mars may have been less oxygen-rich than previously assumed

But there’s still a possibility of life on the Red Planet, finds study

ExoMars mission delayed, rover will now take off in 2022

European Space Agency cited software problems with the spacecraft as a reason for the delay

How the ExoMars mission could sniff out life on Mars – and what to do next

If we do find life on Mars, it will be difficult to prove that we didn't bring it there from Earth. An insider talks us through what's at stake

Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth – Perseverance Rover lands on Feb. 18, a lead scientist explains the tech and goals

Scientists are looking for evidence of past life, either direct chemical or organic signs in the composition and the chemistry of rocks, or …

NASA's Insight mission lands on Mars

After a 300-million-mile journey from Earth over nearly seven months, NASA's InSight spacecraft landed successfully on the surface of Mars on Monday.

Is the Opportunity lost forever?

Over a decade after NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars, it is feared ‘dead’ after a historic dust storm swept the planet

From Neptune's blue hue to Jupiter's red spot: are the colours of the planets real?

Many images of planets have been manipulated. So have we seen their true colours? Not always, it turns out.

Curiosity's Mars odyssey

Meet Perseverance, NASA's new Mars rover

‘Perseverance’ will land on Mars’ Jerezo crater a little after 3.40 pm EST on February 18, 2021