The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they ...

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration. Once ...

Following the announcement of the program nearly six years ago, the Mars 2020 rover mission has selected the Jezero Crater as its landing site. The crater is a location analyzed and recommended by ...

The Mars 2020 mission’s rover is set to be NASA’s next interplanetary explorer, scheduled to make it to the surface of Mars sometime in the summer of 2020. In 1997, when NASA landed the Pathfinder, it ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is listening to the sound of electrical discharges. EHU researchers Ricardo Hueso and Agustín Sánchez-Lavega participated ...

ROXBURY — The Minor Memorial Library in Roxbury is hosting NASA Solar System Ambassador William Cloutier as he presents a follow-up talk on the MARS 2020 Mission: “Six More Wheels on Mars” Sept. 29 at ...