Perseverance, NASA's most sophisticated rover to date, is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. The rover has been traveling through space since launching ...

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...

Perseverance, the NASA Mars rover that launched on July 30, 2020, is set to land on the red planet Thursday afternoon. The rover will touchdown on Mars around 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday. The landing can be ...

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Perseverance rover, the biggest, most advanced rover to date, has landed on Mars in a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the red planet. Ground controllers at the ...

NASA has released a short timelapse video of Perseverance's record-breaking drive on Mars, as engineers determine the rover should be operational until at least 2031. In July 2020, the Perseverance ...

3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...

Since it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA has kept its Perseverance rover busy gathering data and collecting important samples across various regions of the Red Planet. The agency recently ...

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, ...