Sources: BBC
NASA's "Perseverance" rover captures its first images of interstellar object 3I-ATLAS as it passes by Mars. 2025-10-2
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
NASA's "Perseverance" rover successfully synthesizes breathable oxygen while on the surface of Mars. This demonstrates the feasibility of locally producing oxygen for human life support and propellant production. 2021-04-22
The NASA robotic lander "InSight" lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet. 2018-11-26
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 releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. 2015-01-19
NASA's Mars "Curiosity" rover reaches its final destination Aeolis Mons, a mountain that rises 5.5 km at the center of Gale Crater. 2014-09-12
NASA successfully launches its MAVEN space probe on a mission to study Mars' atmosphere. 2013-11-18
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures. 2013-01-19
NASA and Cornell University have given up attempting to move the "Spirit" rover, currently stuck in sand near Home Plate, Gusev crater on the planet Mars, and are converting it into a stationary outpost. Its twin rover, "Opportunity", remains mobile on Mars. 2010-02-3