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

It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting from natural erosion—but in the wake of that image both of NASA’s rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, have been ...

So fixated, in fact, that the space agency has spent more than $5 billion getting two immensely complicated robotic ...

It was just a rock, but when Timothy Lyons picked it up, he knew the Earth had stories to tell, and he wanted to find out ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has come through the L.A. fires in one piece. It will open next week ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

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

One is to leverage technology used for the Perseverance and Curiosity rover landings, and the other involves new commercial capabilities from industry partners.” The first strategy would use the ...

While Perseverance has climbed 20-degree inclines before (both NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers had crested hills at least 10 degrees steeper), this is the first time it's traveled that ...

Like Curiosity before it ... and produce a powder that could be easily analyzed by onboard instruments, the Perseverance drill is specialized for obtaining core samples, suitable for both on ...

New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion ...