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

NASA rover Perseverance landed on Mars and recorded some interesting sounds from the surface. There are two unknown sounds that are unexplained by NASA. NASA states they are not from the rover.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to transfer the samples to the Sample Retrieval ...

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 ...

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.