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 ...

The other alternative involves NASA keeping more of the work in-house. Like the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, the sample collection vehicle and Mars ascent vehicle could be landed on the ...

A lifelong passion for science began in the childhood home of Kimberly Lounds Foster (’94), where her two STEM-oriented parents—her father an electrical engineer and her mother a nurse—encouraged her ...

NASA could use what had already been previously tested and successfully used: the Sky Crane landing system that had been used to lower the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers to the Martian surface.

That's a sky crane, similar to the ones that helped lower NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars' surface. The second option involves working with existing commercial partners ...

The method was previously used for the Perseverance and Curiosity missions. The second option would be to use a commercially provided mass delivery system with commercial partners such as SpaceX ...

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 ...

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 ...

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