The latest selfie by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil popped up 3 miles behind the rover ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

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After landing in February 2021, Perseverance has spent the ensuing years scouring the Martian soil and rocks for evidence that the planet was once habitable. The rover has so far spent about two ...

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock." Perseverance, ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...