If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After several months of traveling through space, NASA’s Perseverance rover and other ...

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Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

After landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover sent back several pictures it captured. One of the pictures show the rover about to land on the planet, while the other shows one of the six wheels of ...

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

The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans ... the mission is to use a system similar to that used for landing the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, called a sky crane.

The second option would include a landing system developed ... bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving," Nelson said. As for Perseverance, the rover's hunt ...