Sources: BBC
Scientists report that Mars has a solid inner core of iron and nickel about 613 kilometers in radius, surrounded by a liquid outer core, based on seismic data from NASA's InSight lander. 2025-09-3
United Arab Emirates Space Agency spacecraft "Hope" enters orbit around Mars. The space probe will study the climate of Mars, and meteorological phenomena such as dust storms. 2021-02-9
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since 2018. Mars will not be closer to Earth again until 2035. 2020-10-6
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully launches "Hope", a United Arab Emirates space probe to Mars, from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. It is the first mission to Mars from the Arab world. 2020-07-19
NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars. 2019-06-24
NASA announces the discovery of preserved organic matter in an ancient lake bed on Mars by its Curiosity rover. It has not been determined if the matter was potentially related to past life on Mars or not. 2018-06-7
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds the Beagle 2 spacecraft that disappeared in 2003 intact on the surface of Mars. An error had stopped the spacecraft's solar panels from working and communicating back to Earth. 2015-01-16
The ISRO of India launches a PSLV-XL rocket carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission probe, which will eventually be sent to Mars. 2013-11-5
NASA holds a media conference to announce new discoveries about Mars made by the Curiosity rover. It was found that the planet could have once supported life. 2013-03-12
Russia's Fobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon of Phobos runs into problems shortly after its launch, with no telemetry reported from the spacecraft. 2011-11-9