Sources: BBC
In the United States, Blue Origin launches NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft mission to study Mars' magnetosphere. It is the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle, and the first successful landing of the vehicle's reusable first stage. 2025-11-13
Liquid water is confirmed to be present at depths of 10 – km abbr=on below the surface of Mars, based on a new analysis of data from NASA's "InSight" lander. 2024-08-12
NASA's "Perseverance" finds evidence that an ancient river delta on Mars held a crater-filling lake billions of years ago. 2023-12-12
U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Space Policy Directive 1" that establishes the foundation for a crewed mission to the Moon, while also maintaining a longer-term NASA goal of landing a man on Mars. 2017-12-11
China's National Space Administration says it is working on a program to land a rover on Mars by 2020. 2016-04-22
Oort cloud Comet Siding Spring makes a close fly-by the planet Mars passing within 140,000 kilometres. 2014-10-19
NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars. 2014-09-22
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
Space tourist Dennis Tito founds Inspiration Mars Foundation and announces plans for a privately funded crewed trip to Mars in 2018. 2013-02-23
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lands safely on the surface of Mars. 2012-08-6