Currently hurtling through space, rapidly approaching its destination, NASA's Perseverance rover will make the most difficult landing ever attempted on Mars on Thursday, before it begins its hunt for ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

The latest selfie by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil popped up 3 miles behind the rover ...

Editor at Large When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the ...

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 ...

In July 2020, a robotic astrobiologist began a journey to a distant planet. NASA's Perseverance rover is currently en route to Mars — set to land on the Red Planet by February 2021. The mission is ...

Experts describe their plans for the February 18 event, what could go wrong and what they hope to learn Nora McGreevy - Correspondent Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on ...

The Perseverance rover has now been on the surface of Mars for some 47 days following its high-profile landing on February 18. Since then the rover has sent back thousands of raw images, along with ...