NASA’s Perseverance rover has officially crossed the 42.2-kilometer mark on Mars, surpassing the equivalent of a marathon.

Since it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA has kept its Perseverance rover busy gathering data and collecting important samples across various regions of the Red Planet. The agency recently ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

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NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s investigation of a ...

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says Perseverance's new image is "one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

According to NASA, the rover’s landing was the most challenging touchdown on Mars that’s been attempted by the agency. Right before the landing, NASA engineers were on pins and needles as the rover ...