What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a first-time detection of ...

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Analysis of four years of acoustic recordings made by NASA's rover has allowed scientists to identify 55 episodes of electrical activity, based on the interferences and acoustic signatures ...

The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will arrive at the Red Planet this week, and NASA has several ways for kids to get involved ahead of its landing today (Feb. 18). Perseverance earned its official ...

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

Starting July 27, news activities will cover everything from mission engineering and science to returning samples from Mars to, of course, the launch itself. NASA is targeting 7:50 a.m. EDT (4:50 a.m.

Editor’s Note (8/6/21): Shortly after this story was published, NASA officials announced that data received from Perseverance suggested that no rock was collected during the rover’s initial sampling ...