NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover to date, is expected to land on the surface of Mars Thursday, February 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. Here’s what to expect this week.

The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...

On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest road trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...

NASA prepares to land Perseverance rover on Mars 09:43. A week after two space probes from China and United Arab Emirates slipped into orbit around Mars, NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover, by ...

Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on July 7. Kim Shiflett / NASA.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover vehicle takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., July 30, 2020.

If NASA’s Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars, it will become the first space mission in nearly 45 years to directly search for signs of microbial life. Feb. 17, 2021.

NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life Seven minutes of terror: “Success depends on everything going right, down to fractions of a second” ...

NASA officials revealed on Thursday the new name of the 2020 Mars rover: Perseverance. The space agency named Alexander Mather, a seventh grader from Lake Braddock Secondary School in Virginia, as ...