The faster you can get a crew to Mars, the better - but conventional propulsion systems may not be up to the task.
After covering 20 miles across the Martian surface, it is perhaps no surprise that the rover has taken a few dints.
Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.
This peculiar striped rock is quite unlike anything that scientists have ever seen before on the Red Planet.
The SpaceX CEO has stated on social media that manned missions to Mars will start very soon indeed.
The likelihood of finding evidence of life on Mars seems to be increasing by the day.
Perseverance has examined a rock that exhibits evidence of chemical reactions indicative of primitive life.
This huge, stunning geological feature has been captured on camera in more detail than ever before.
Scientists have identified a type of desert moss that can survive in the most extreme conditions imaginable.
Scientists have suggested that subterranean lava tubes on Mars could be home to primitive alien life forms.
Discovered on Mars in 1976, could this face-like structure be evidence of aliens, or something else ?
NASA is currently funding a revolutionary new propulsion system that could make it much easier to travel to Mars.
Major change is afoot regarding NASA's plans to return samples of Martian soil and rock to the Earth.
The SpaceX CEO has some ambitious plans to build a thriving city on the Red Planet within as little as 20 years.
Samples collected from Jezero crater may contain fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.
The pint-sized helicopter exceeded everyone's wildest expectations having flown 72 missions over 3 years.
NASA's decade-old rover recently spotted something rather familiar while trundling across the surface of the Red Planet.
There is still a great deal we don't know about the enigmatic Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos.
A relative of today's wombats, the Diprotodon was absolutely massive - standing 1.7 meters tall and weighing 3 tons.
A 'monster' quake picked up on Mars suggests that the Red Planet is far from seismically inactive.