For Mars 2020 that analysis started years ago, resulting in NASA’s 2015 decision to use a radioisotope power system to provide electrical power for the rover, given that the risks were small.

NASA’s longer-term goal is to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s. However, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin said he thought a slightly later target date of 2040 was more realistic.

NASA'S NEXT MISSION TO MARS WILL HONOR THOSE FIGHTING AGAINST COVID-19 “Perseverance is a robotic scientist weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms),” explains NASA in a statement.

Despite concerns that aging spacecraft at Mars will fail in the next several years, NASA has yet to approve plans for any Mars missions beyond 2020.

Ahead of next week’s launch window opening --wherein NASA will have from July 30th to August 15th to get the mission underway -- The Space Foundation sat down with NASA leadership to discuss the ...

NASA will reveal the next Mars 2020 rover name on Thursday, ending their seven-month-long “Name the Rover” essay contest that 28,000 students took part in nationwide.

NASA’s space helicopter has set two new flight records on Mars. During what the mission team described as Ingenuity’s “most ambitious flight” among its 25 trips to date, the 4-pound, 19 ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover just earned its driver's license. The still-unnamed rover moved for the very first time Tuesday afternoon, and its proud parents are happy to report it passed the test.

NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks virtually the same as Curiosity, but there are a number of differences. One giveaway to which rover you're looking at is 2020's aft cross-beam, which looks a bit like ...

NASA’s next major interplanetary mission is the Mars 2020 rover. The robot explorer is expected to touch down on the Red Planet in February 2021, but there is one key detail that remains to be ...

Aiming the rover for a 2020 launch, Grunsfeld said, allows NASA to keep contributing to two European-led Mars missions slated to lift off in 2016 and 2018, respectively — the Trace Gas Orbiter ...