NASA’s Perseverance rover, a $2.7 billion mission, faced a significant challenge when it nearly lost a critical tool during its operations on Mars. This incident, recently reported, highlights the ...

NASA’s Mars rover collected rock samples that could reveal if the planet once hosted life. Here’s what scientists plan to do ...

Learn about past and upcoming Mars missions, NASA's role in Mars exploration, and the future of human space travel, including ...

One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

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An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They ...

The Perseverance rover's discovery of a potential biosignature found on a sedimentary rock on Mars is an exciting development in our search for life elsewhere in the universe, but how does it rank ...

With "one of the coolest jobs in the world", NASA rover operator Vandi Verma hopes women's high profile in the latest Mars ...