For Donald Trump, Mars is a priority, so NASA's successes will be even more crucial. Recently, a significant achievement ...

No one can speak more knowledgeably or eloquently about NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission than Steve Squyres. And that's only partly because Squyres, a professor of astronomy at Cornell ...

Originally scheduled for a 2024 launch, the mission was halted due to financial constraints. Now, NASA is seeking private ...

The simulation shown in the video shows the particularly challenging mission ... Mars and enter its orbit. The eight scientific instruments of the exploration module will then begin mapping and ...

The arm – which will be used to acquire samples and determine the geotechnical properties of lunar regolith – is built from flight spare components from the Mars Exploration Rover mission ...

The Perseverance Mars rover has collected a rock sample on Mars ... for an eventual return to Earth for study, and to test new exploration technologies. One of those technologies was the plucky ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovers an ancient rock sample in Jezero Crater, possibly dating back billions of years.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired ... milestone in our mission to uncover the geological history of Jezero Crater.” It also marks a return to full-time exploration by Perseverance ...

who leads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet.

A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur ... Curiosity is on a mission to find out if Mars might have once been habitable for microbial life. Understanding the ...