Breathtaking Photos of Mars Terrain Hint at a Mysterious Cyclic Past

InSight — the first "geophysicist on Mars" — is in trouble. Dust is covering its solar panels, and power could be lost by Summer. Some have asked why InSight has no mechanism to clean them. “The reason can be summed up in one word: money," says Bruce Barnerdt, principal investigator.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Picks Up an Unwanted Hitchhiker

Mission Update: Mars and the Moon - Mission teams presenting at this week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference provided updates on the Perseverance and Zhurong rovers at Mars, Chang’e 5’s lunar sample return, and more