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

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

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

The NASA Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and dust ... “We are exploring two new landing options,” said Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

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

This led to an off-balance, hard landing that broke the helicopter ... test data on a weekly basis that it sends to the Perseverance rover, which is still in touch with JPL.

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on ... the cost ballooned to $11 billion and the samples wouldn't be landing on Earth until 2040. So Nelson scrapped that plan in April ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... surface material that were collected by NASA's Perseverance rover and deliver them back to Earth.

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with ... He was referring to the agency's Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet in February 2021 and has been ...