After a short drive on Thursday, NASA's Perseverance rover has now made its first wheel tracks on the surface of Mars. The robot explorer has also racked up a number of other mission 'firsts', while ...

After a seven month trip to Mars, the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity drone helicopter are set to land shortly before 4 p.m. ET Thursday February 18. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun testing drones for Mars exploration. In a desert with an environment similar to Mars, it flew drones with both rotors and fixed wings ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was not what it is today. Once, it bubbled and rippled with frothy waves, just like the Earth. But when swirling masses of gas and dust were accumulated by ...

The NASa rover Perseverance has been searching for traces of microbiological life on Mars for four years, and now there is a particularly hot lead. NASA's Perseverance rover has found possible traces ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Perseverance mission spotted a possible large meteorite, called Phippsaksla, in September ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a fascinating image of a Martian rock that strikingly resembles a turtle poking its head out of its shell. The rock's unique shape has sparked comparisons to a ...

NASA is moving forward with plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth for more intense study than is possible on the red planet, and its robotic explorers are already laying the groundwork. The ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...