The Mars 2020 mission’s rover is set to be NASA’s next interplanetary explorer, scheduled to make it to the surface of Mars sometime in the summer of 2020. In 1997, when NASA landed the Pathfinder, it ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – When the newly developed Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021 after embarking on a seven-month cruise through space, we will be able to hear sounds of the ...

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 ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- For the first time ever, the media was allowed inside NASA's clean room to see the Mars 2020 Rover in person and chat with the team that built it. "This is like our surrogate ...

After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the ...

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 ...

NASA has announced that the next Mars rover -- currently codenamed Mars 2020 -- will be outfitted with an array of sophisticated, upgraded scientific instruments that will let it delve deeper and ...

The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they ...

PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A NASA robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency's mission ...