— -- Followers of the Mars rover can now experience their own "seven minutes of terror" using their Xbox 360 video game system and Kinect motion controller. The descent and landing of the rover ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

The Mars Rover — or as it was officially known, the Opportunity Mars Rover — arrived on Mars in 2004, for what was supposed to be a roughly 90-day visit to the Red Planet. The rover was sent into ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA’s Curiosity rover was trucking across the surface of Mars, heading to ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Perseverance has been poking around a spot named Broom Point at the ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...