This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission. The planned landing area is marked with an ...

NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and ...

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 ...

One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind. After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence ...

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, there’s a special name for the time it will take the Mars Perseverance spacecraft to travel from the top of the Martian atmosphere ...

The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will arrive at the Red Planet this week, and NASA has several ways for kids to get involved ahead of its landing today (Feb. 18). Perseverance earned its official ...

It’s easy to take it for granted, but we’re driving around on freakin’ Mars right now. We’ve done this a few times before, sure, but it remains one of humankind’s most impressive technological feats.

A class that combined physics and calculus supercharged Moogega Cooper’s love of science, helping set the path to her crucial role as planetary protection lead of NASA’s 2020 mission to Mars. And ...