NASA will reveal the next Mars 2020 rover name on Thursday, ending their seven-month-long “Name the Rover” essay contest that 28,000 students took part in nationwide.

NASA officials are confident that the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission will launch this summer given special measures it took during the pandemic.

NASA is getting ready to launch its Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover on an epic mission to the Red Planet.

As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover, including the recent completion of testing the spacecraft in Mars-like conditions, public safety remains a ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover just earned its driver's license. The still-unnamed rover moved for the very first time Tuesday afternoon, and its proud parents are happy to report it passed the test.

As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled ...

Some 17 years after slinging its Spirit and Opportunity rovers towards the Red Planet, NASA is making final preparations ahead of its Mars 2020 mission launch, this time with Perseverance rover ...

Mars 2020 Mars 2020 spacecraft subjected to brutal tests as it prepares for launch Peek inside the NASA Mars 2020 rover clean room The rover won't launch on its journey until mid-2020 at the earliest.

NASA plans to launch a rover to Mars this July to hunt for signs of ancient Red Planet life. The new Mars 2020 rover's body is similar to that of the older Curiosity, but the two machines are ...

NASA's next Martian vehicle is finally supporting its own weight. The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California released the brief time-lapse video above showing the Mars 2020 ...

MONROVIA, Calif .— NASA’s next major interplanetary mission is the Mars 2020 rover. The robot explorer is expected to touch down on the Red Planet in February 2021, but there is one key detail ...

The next NASA rover headed to Mars, up to now blandly referred to as Mars 2020, has been named Perseverance. That was the winning moniker selected in NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest ...