NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and ...

In this picture from Sept. 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from the ...

The rover Perseverance carried the helicopter Ingenuity — the first helicopter to fly on another planet. This animated video visualizes the Mars 2020 mission, including the rover, helicopter ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has driven farther than any vehicle on the surface of another world, and much faster.

A new Mars rover is scheduled to rendezvous with the red planet in 2020 as part of a series of missions un-climatically called Mars 2020. The 2020 Mars rover is a better equipped twin of the Curiosity ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Martian rock that could hold the signs of life is exciting scientists ...

NASA has installed a birds-eye, live webcam showing the assembly of the Mars 2020 rover. The stream titled "Seeing 2020" provides a live video feed from NASA's clean room floor at the Jet Propulsion ...

Because space is vast, infinite, mysterious, and really fucking cool, NASA today announced its next major space exploration mission, in which it’ll send a rover to Mars equipped with instruments to ...

Right now, NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is planning to send a rover to the red planet sometime in July or August of next year. There’s just one problem: NASA doesn’t know what to call it. In an ...