(JPL) – This is the first transit of the sun by a planet observed from any planet other than Earth, and also the first imaging of Mercury from Mars. Mercury…

  Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The…

Rover team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., received confirmation early Tuesday of Curiosity’s third successful acquisition of a drilled rock sample, following the drilling Monday evening (PDT)….

(NASA’) – Curiosity Mars rover performed a “mini-drill” operation Tuesday, April 29, on the rock target under consideration for the mission’s third sample-collection drilling. This preparatory activity produced a hole…

In it’s bid to join the U.S and Russia in successful mission to the red planet, India’s Mangalyaan Orbiter passed the half way point to Mars on April 09, 2014…

Administrator Charles Bolden outlined NASA’s human exploration path to Mars during a keynote address at the April 22 Humans to Mars Summit 2014, held at George Washington University in Washington….

This image taken from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the rover as well as the tracks it made in traveling to  a rock layer surrounding the base of a small butte, called…

Looking much like any desert on Earth, complete with mountains in the background, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of various rock types at a waypoint called “the Kimberley”…