Sources: BBC
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
NASA awards Lockheed Martin a contract to build a next-generation "Mars Ascent Vehicle" to return the first rock samples from Mars to Earth in the 2030s. 2022-02-8
Astronomers at Pan-STARRS announce the discovery of a small near-Earth object (NEO) HLV2514, which is an Amor asteroid near Mars. The asteroid was first discovered in June 2020 by two 14-year-old Indian schoolgirls who were participating in a NASA project. 2020-07-28
NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars. 2019-06-24
The mission of NASA's "Opportunity" rover on Mars comes to an end. The rover stopped communicating in June 2018 after a Martian dust storm, and attempts to reestablish communications have not been successful. 2019-02-13
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 scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton near-Earth asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts on their route to Mars after 2025. 2012-12-27
NASA's "Curiosity" rover has detected several simple carbon-based organic compounds on Mars, but it remains unclear whether they were formed via Earthly contamination or whether they contain only elements indigenous to the planet. 2012-12-3