Mars rover landing 2021: Perseverance is on a mission to seek new alien life. Here's how that would change the world. The discovery of long-expired Martian bacteria would permanently change ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotting signs of long-dead life is a tall order for a lonely robot on a faraway world, but NASA's next Mars rover should be up to the challenge, mission team members said. NASA ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

In a desolate rock-strewn landscape, a Mars rover picks its way gingerly across the red sand. But this is not the Red Planet – it is a quarry in Bedfordshire, where the robot that could prove ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has tested a new technique to search for molecules that could reveal the signs of alien life on Mars. While the experiment conducted with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM ...

Artist's illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance exploring the Red Planet. Perseverance's three-week launch window opens on July 17, 2020. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...

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Above all, the rover has to be incredibly clean to avoid any contamination of Mars. Engineers baked the rover at more than 300 degrees Fahrenheit (150 degrees Celsius), to completely sterilize it.

NASA has announced that the next Mars rover -- currently codenamed Mars 2020 -- will be outfitted with an array of sophisticated, upgraded scientific instruments that will let it delve deeper and ...

Mars Perseverance rover finds ‘something no one’s ever seen’ in its search for alien life. The rover revealed a mass of minerals and sediment under the Martian earth .