A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

NASA has revealed its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has made a 'successful' and exciting discovery. The National Aeronautics ...

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is definitely going to be one for the record books. The rover being sent to the Red Planet is capable of tasks that no other machine on Mars can perform, and that means ...

Perseverance's drives over the last few weeks have doubled back several times. Why such an unconventional route? Team ...

SuperCam is an evolution of the Curiosity rover’s ChemCam, and once the Mars 2020 rover begins its mission in earnest it will be used to study objects on the planet’s surface. Well ...

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.

But there's still one major mission left: Send a sample from Mars back to Earth. NASA is taking a huge step toward that goal in 2020 with its "Mars 2020" rover. The Mars 2020 comes with some major ...

Allwood works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is a principal investigator for the Mars 2020 rover mission—the first mission, she says, with “the primary objective of searching for ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...