The NASA search focuses on finding four individuals who embody the spirit and skills of astronauts
Mars
"Goodnight, sweet prince"
While parked ahead of a pause in duties for the Mars solar conjunction, Curiosity put its Hazcams to another use
Perseverance and Ingenuity littered Mars with wreckage
The space agency is waiting out a phenomenon known as a solar conjunction, in which Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun
With roughly 200 bombardments that create 4-meter craters each year, the Martian surface is constantly spewing more rock into space
After landing on the Red Planet in 1976, NASA's Viking landers may have sampled tiny, dry-resistant life-forms hiding inside Martian rocks
It's not preserved matter from biological organisms, but the discovery is a boost to the rover's mission: finding signs of ancient life on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater
Earlier this year, astronomers discovered a strange structure on Mars resembling a bear’s face