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WHAT: Clara Ma, the sixth-grade student from Sunflower Elementary in Lenexa, Kan., who named the next Mars rover “Curiosity,” will meet Mars Science Laboratory team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...

Pathfinder is 223,124,158.5 km away from mission control today. The Pathfinder mission has been quiet again today, as the lander recharges its batteries. JPL has released no further information today.

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After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online. The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

NASA's Perseverance rover triumphantly celebrated the end of a tough climb out of the Jezero Crater on Mars with new images and a new science campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...