Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover.

NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it prepares for launch this summer. The name is a result of a nationwide contest, which accepted more than 28,000 essays from K-12 ...

A rover without its wheels can’t do much roving at all, so the recent addition of fancy new wheels to the Mars 2020 rover is pretty exciting for NASA and space observers around the world.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be its most ambitious trip to the Red Planet yet.

In April, Mars 2020 got an antenna that will enable it to communicate with Earth. NASA will be able to steer this antenna to point directly at Earth. That way, the rover won't have to change ...

it had successfully charged the batteries aboard a tiny helicopter that is hitching a ride in the belly of the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance. Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, better known as Percy, was designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars ...

NASA will hold a virtual media briefing Friday, Sept. 10, at noon EDT to provide an update on the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, which recently completed its first successful rock sampling.

Allwood works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is a principal investigator for the Mars 2020 rover mission—the first mission, she says, with “the primary objective of searching for ...

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Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop.

the European Space Agency released the ExoMy rover for those who want to experience a little bit of Mars from home. ExoMy’s quoted price of admission is in the range of 250-500€. Perusing ...