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 ...

Following the announcement of the program nearly six years ago, the Mars 2020 rover mission has selected the Jezero Crater as its landing site. The crater is a location analyzed and recommended by ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission and Purdue University planetary scientist Briony Horgan are approaching a new phase in the search for details about the red planet’s history and ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake—considerably expanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a seven month trip to Mars, the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity drone helicopter are set to land shortly before 4 p.m. ET Thursday February 18. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, ...

The new year brings four straight supermoons in a row, starting in February and ending in May. Skygazers will also be treated to a rare Blue Moon on Halloween. America votes in the 2020 presidential ...

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 ...