Mars

A milestone moment years in the making is coming up in April when a tiny helicopter is expected to launch from the Perseverance rover and take flight above the surface of Mars.

NBCLX is bringing you live coverage and expert analysis of the Mars Perseverance rover landing.

NASA engineer Al Chen, an MIT graduate, talks about some of the fun hidden surprises on the Mars Rover Perseverance for people here on Earth to discover.

The Perseverance Rover is giving us a never-before-seen look at the surface of Mars.

NASA’s newest Mars rover has hit the dusty red road, taking a spin for the first time this week

NASA landed its fifth rover on Mars Thursday after a nearly seven-month journey capped by a 12,000-mph blast through the Martian atmosphere and a gentle touchdown.

President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated the NASA team responsible for last month’s successful landing of an unmanned rover on Mars for giving the country a “dose of confidence” at a moment when the nation’s reputation as a scientific leader has been tattered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Peanuts are popular at baseball games and bars, but did you know they’re also a mainstay at NASA?

The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded the first audio clips captured on the surface of Mars, beaming back to Earth guttural sounds of wind gusting on the red planet. The first-of-its-kind audio was released Monday, along with extraordinary new video footage of the rover as it descended and landed last Thursday. The images are among the most sophisticated yet taken of Mars,...

Stunning video released Monday shows the high-stakes descent of the rover Perseverance from several angles as it streaks toward the surface of Mars before a gentle touchdown.

NASA shared footage captured by the Perseverance rover as it landed on Mars last week.

NASA has released the first close-up picture that captures a rover descending to the surface of Mars

NASA released a series of images from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on Friday. Among them, the rover’s first high-resolution, full-color image of Mars.

NASA has faced many challenges over the years, but COVID-19 was one of the biggest. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway spoke with Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace about the “existential” threat that the pandemic posed to its Mars mission.

LX News host Ashley Holt visited Space Center Houston for a closer look at the space missions that made the Mars Perseverance Rover landing possible — and that will help pave the way to put a human on the red planet next.

A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.

Watch NBCLX’s live coverage of the Perseverance rover’s landing as it touches down on the red planet and starts its mission to search for traces of ancient life.

NASA’s latest Mars rover has made a safe landing on the red planet on a mission that will help pave the way for human visitors.