A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it ... for astronauts are at the core of Perseverance’s mission. The rover’s payload consists of seven main instruments.

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 ...

Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the landing ... [+] ellipse, where the rover will be touching down on Mars. The color added to this image ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

And with good reason — the Mars 2020 mission has been in the works for a better part of a decade, and as we reported earlier this year, the rover it’s delivering to the Martian surface ...