On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on ...

The director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has appointed Dr. Daniel J. McCleese as the laboratory’s chief scientist. JPL’s chief scientist is responsible for the scientific leadership and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, now five years into its mission on Mars, has already traveled nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) across the planet’s surface. With the mission team continuing to assess its ...

When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

A significant round of layoffs has hit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, affecting around 8% of its workforce, consisting of about 530 people in support and technical areas of the lab, NASA said. The ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

Dr. Firouz M. Naderi, manager of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program since April 2000, will broaden his oversight of endeavors to study other parts of the universe, from Earth to distant galaxies, in a ...

The one-minute timelapse shows the rover traverse the Martian terrain, and cross its own tracks from earlier in the year.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.