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 ...

So why is NASA deciding which rocket will launch a flagship European Mars mission? It’s a long story involving the search for ...

This illustration shows the drone-like Mars-copter that will be included in the Mars 2020 mission. NASA / JPL-Caltech Time to spread those little wings and fly! NASA will send a helicopter to Mars in ...

In a groundbreaking development for the Mars 2020 mission,NASA’s Perseverance rover has embarked on an exciting new journey to explore a previously untouched region on Mars known as megabreccia. This ...

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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, now five years into its mission on Mars, has already traveled nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) across the planet’s surface. With the mission team continuing to assess its ...

American space agency NASA said it selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to launch ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in ...

(Reuters) - NASA's next mission to Mars in 2020 will feature a souped-up unmanned rover vehicle to search for signs of ancient microbial life in areas of the uninhabitable red planet. The successor to ...

The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of ...