The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

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

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars ... It will also use a nuclear power system instead of solar panels, which should simplify ...

A core of a Martian rock about the size of a piece of chalk within a Perseverance rover drill ... The platform’s solar panels would be swapped for a radioisotope power system that can provide ...

The green spots are thou... NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning solar eclipse on Mars, showcasing the moon Phobos as it partially blocked the sun. This remarkable event ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers ... instead of solar panels, making the craft immune to sunlight-blocking ...

Water on Mars could have set off a chain ... Aug. 14, 2024 — Between July and November of 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected seven samples of sediment from an ancient alluvial fan in ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

However, the US space agency assumes that the final decision on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will not be made until the second half of next year. The Mars rover Perseverance has been ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...