No prior mission to Mars has been better equipped to answer the essential question: “Are we alone?” But no matter how capable Perseverance is, there’s a limit to how much science can be ...

NASA's Perseverance ... three years on Mars after a 200-day, 300-million-mile journey between from July 2020 to February 2021 to reach the Red Planet. The craft's landing site was the bottom ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...