For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...
NASA aims to return Martian soil and rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, marking the first such planetary sample return mission. A decision on the mission profile is delayed until mid-2026. Two ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...
On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected chemical signatures in rocks similar to those created by microbial life on ...
Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...
Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...
When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...
Perseverance took a selfie after filling a sample tube with a rock core from the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls. The small, dark hole in the rock is where the core sample was drilled.