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An area near the base of an ancient river delta in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater will house backup samples from carefully selected rocks on the surface of Mars.

The Perseverance rover is a well-equipped robot with a gaggle of cameras, multiple spectrometers, and even a little box that ...

NASA has safely landed spacecraft on Mars nine times. But now they're investigating whether crash landing could be the best way to reach the Red Planet.

This is important both for our search for life, and for potential contamination of the Red Planet.

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission will have to be protected against micrometeorites traveling at even higher speeds.

Landing securely on Mars remains a delicate balance of technical skill, mixed in with hard-earned luck.

Protecting Mars Sample Return spacecraft from micrometeorites requires high-caliber work.

Perseverance Mars rover is gathering up samples of Martian rock and soil that could help tease out an answer concerning past life on Mars.

Europes unlucky first Martian rover ExoMars can still play a big role in answering the question whether there has ever been life on the Red Planet?

In the first years of next decade, humanity should have in its grasp the first ever purposely fetched pieces of Mars. A series of missions collectively k...