3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built is on its way to the red planet. NASA's Perseverance blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop an Atlas V rocket ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

NASA’s latest Mars rover represents a complete rethinking of how robotic explorers survive on the Red Planet. Engineers upgraded mobility, autonomy, and scientific instruments to handle harsher ...

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 ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the Red Planet. After years of scanning dust, dunes and ancient lakebeds, a ...