After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the ...

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth. Humanity’s most sophisticated rover launched ...

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Excerpt from The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir by Elio ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Perseverance has officially survived a year on Mars. And what a year ...

The discovery was made by analysing sounds from the atmosphere of the red planet obtained by the Perseverance rover.

A Martian rock that could hold the signs of life is exciting scientists like Katie Stack Morgan, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the deputy project scientist of the Mars 2020 ...

Nearly two years since the Mars 2020 mission first launched, the robot astrobiologist known as Perseverance has given us a novel and sometimes surprising look at the Red Planet. Outfitted with a ...

A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think. Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne ...