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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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