As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...

In fact, the vehicle he drives never goes faster than about 0.1 mph. Because he drives a rover on Mars. Morookian is one of two dozen employees at the lab who drive Perseverance, a $2 billion ...

“Mars rover missions usually end up exploring bedrock in small, flat exposures in the immediate workspace of the rover,” deputy project scientist of Perseverance at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Scotland is making a contribution to space exploration by loaning out one of its ancient rocks to test out a robot bound for ...

New images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may have revealed what was once a river on the red planet. The river, which the agency said was deeper and faster-moving than scientists have ever ...

The latest rover to continue our presence on the red planet is Perseverance, the star of the Mars 2020 mission that launched in July of that year and landed in February of 2021. It has now been ...

NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, deposited its first sample of rocks on the Red Planet’s surface Wednesday for an eventual return to Earth. The rover placed a titanium tube containing the rock ...

When Corrine Rojas comes into work, Mars is waiting for her. She drives to the office, grabs a cup of coffee, and then pulls up the latest dispatches from Perseverance, a car-size NASA rover ...