The Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that scientists think could show ... A scan of the rock using a special instrument on Perseverance's arm called SHERLOC picked up on organic matter.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander to touch down near the rover, use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars ...

The images in the post match an authentic panoramic compiled from images captured by the NASA Mars Perseverance rover, a robotic mission launched in 2020. However, the purported fly is not in the ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

A mad dash, by Mars rover standards. (The one-day distance record for Perseverance is 347.689 meters ... including cameras and an all-purpose robotic arm. It can drive backward.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA’s description of the image says it is "the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...