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 ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been making waves with its recent discoveries on Mars. From capturing images of a skull-shaped ...

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof. This isn’t any ...