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 ...
The NASA Perseverance rover may have found a pivotal clue that’s central to its mission on Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The ...
How does a Mars rover stick its landing, you ask? Well, NASA is referring to the critical moment as the “7 minutes of terror.” Compared to Earth, Mars has a very ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” which has features that may offer clues about whether Mars was once home to ...
A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' surface.
The Perseverance rover will begin the Crater Rim Campaign on Aug. 19. Marking a new journey in NASA's exploration of Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to begin a monthslong, steep and challenging ...
The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil popped up 3 miles (5 kilometers) ...
A NASA rover captured images of a Martian eclipse that resembled a googly-eye peering down at the red planet. The space agency released photos and video Wednesday that show the Martian moon Phobos ...
After landing in February 2021, Perseverance has spent the ensuing years scouring the Martian soil and rocks for evidence that the planet was once habitable. The rover has so far spent about two ...
Feb. 13 (UPI) --NASA engineers are working to close one of two dust covers, stuck open on a camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, to help scientists resume collecting crucial data on the Red ...
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...