NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month voyage from Earth. "Touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight. Credit: Space.com | ...

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Perseverance is NASA's first mission that will search for signs of ancient life on another planet to help answer the big question: Was life ever present on Mars? The rover will explore Jezero Crater, ...

One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on the planet's surface. While scientists have long theorized ...

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.

Ever lose connection to GPS? Sometimes you're in a tunnel, sometimes your phone is acting up, and sometimes you're a robotic explorer on another planet hundreds of millions of miles away from the ...

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...