Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

Mars is quietly turning into a long-distance proving ground, and the vehicle leading the pack is not a dune buggy but a ...

NASA teams are testing drones, robot dogs, and new flight software in America’s toughest deserts to prepare for the ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has seen its fair share of rocks, and ...

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Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...