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

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission ... agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is busily wheeling about within the ins and outs of Jezero Crater, biting into and snatching primo chunks of Mars for eventual pick-up by a future MSR mission.

The agency has collected 30 samples on the red planet but the cost of getting them back had delayed the Mars Sample Return mission ... to lower the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers to the ...

The float was also decorated with "floralgraph" mission patches, including the emblems for NASA's Viking, Pathfinder and Perseverance (Mars 2020) missions, as rendered using flowers. The float's Mars ...

Wildfires in California caused evacuations at NASA Jet Propulsion Labaratory in Pasadena, halting the Perseverance Rover ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars ... would streamline the mission. A final decision would come next year. Perseverance has collected more ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a crucial decision as the Trump administration steps in. The mission's future, ...

Space agencies have been sending small probes and landers to Mars for decades. While Mars is the planet next door, getting there takes a lot of power. For example, the Perseverance rover has a ...

This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 206 (Jan. 19 - 25, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.