You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

Strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars may reveal groundwater lasted longer than scientists thought.

Curiosity rover’s recent activities in the Boxwork unit include detailed bedrock analysis, Mastcam mosaics, and atmospheric monitoring, advancing NASA’s ongoing investigation of Mars geology.

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

NASA's Curiosity rover just found bizarre nodules on giant Martian "spiderwebs." Scientists are puzzled.

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 This week we had three planning sessions, exploring the eastern ...