Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover revealed 24 mineral types in Jezero Crater, showing Mars experienced several water episodes.

The question of whether there is or was life on Mars has been around for a long time, but NASA's Perseverance rover might ...

A long-tailed comet has been spotted close to the sun, and some astronomers are predicting it could be seen with the naked ...

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” Acting NASA ...

New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover.

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

NASA rover Perseverance collected evidence being considered by agency officials as 'the closest we have ever come to ...

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

Perseverance has a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes for samples gathered from places suitable for hosting life billions of ...