Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA’s ...

NASA's next Mars rover doesn't have a name yet, but it does have a landing zone. You can take a closer look at the Mars 2020 rover's home-to-be in a new video assembled from the latest NASA orbital ...

HOUSTON—Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to the Martian surface. Scheduled to ...

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 ...

HOUSTON—NASA has selected Jezero Crater, an ancient dry lake with diverse landscapes, from among 64 candidates on the red planet as the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The rover is a mechanical ...