NASA's latest update on Perseverance shows how the Mars rover is holding up after five years and what that means for future exploration plans.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has officially crossed the 42.2-kilometer mark on Mars, surpassing the equivalent of a marathon.

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While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's passage by Neptune. Plus, an amazing lightning storm seen from the ISS, a ...

Update: Perseverance is safe on the surface of Mars! The headline has been updated to reflect the news. NASA crew celebrating the landing of rover Perseverance on Mars. Image Credits: NASA There will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting your day with one of the best-looking panoramic images of Mars is a pleasant reminder that we humans can do pretty incredible things. This inspiring photography is brought to us by NASA's ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the red planet on Thursday, and immediately got to work, beaming images from the surface directly back to Earth. After a seven-month flight, the rover will begin ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...