NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s. The rover ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover prepares for new rock sample collection at Lac de Charmes, following Margin Unit studies and continued mobility testing, as part of the Mars 2020 mission.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie with some of the sample tubes it left on the Red Planet's surface using the camera at the end of its robotic arm. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA’s ...

Among the dozens of NASA missions active at any given time is Perseverance, the rover currently roaming Mars collecting whatever Martian rocks it can. In the two years its been on the planet, ...

On February 18, 2021, Mars 2020 landed at Jezero Crater on Mars. The mission contained a rover named Perseverance and a helicopter named Ingenuity. The main objectives of the Perseverance rover are to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, ...

NASA has revealed where samples collected on Mars will be handled once they make it back to Earth. The space agency just announced the launch of its Mars Sample Receiving Project office at Johnson ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed ...

The NASA Perseverance rover isn’t only exploring Mars for the scientific discoveries it can make now — it’s also paving the way for future missions which intend to bring samples back from Mars to ...

NASA is about to lock in a verdict on how long its Perseverance rover can keep working on Mars, and the answer will shape the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has grabbed another rock that may contain clues as to whether there was life on Mars. Officials with the Mars mission announced the milestone briefly Monday (Aug. 1) on ...