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 ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...