LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — NewsNation reporter Gene Kang stopped by NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab as the agency celebrated a successful rover launch years in the making. “Touchdown confirmed!

According to NASA, the rover’s landing was the most challenging touchdown on Mars that’s been attempted by the agency. Right before the landing, NASA engineers were on pins and needles as the rover ...

3:53 p.m.: Perseverance parachute has deployed to help control its descent to Mars. The spacecraft is now traveling at subsonic speeds. Here goes! Lighting the engines on my “jetpack” for final ...

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Perseverance rover, the biggest, most advanced rover to date, has landed on Mars in a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the red planet. Ground controllers at the ...

When NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere and settled into Jezero Crater, it did more than stick a precision landing. For the first time, a robot on another world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has released the first close-up picture that captures a rover descending to the surface of Mars. The space agency revealed the photo Friday, less than 24 hours after ...

NASA released a new video Monday from last week’s historic landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars. “These are the stuff of our dreams. It’s what we’ve been dreaming about,” Al Chen, Perseverance ...

After a six-month journey from Earth, the Mars Perseverance rover landed safely on the red planet just before 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, February 18. It will be NASA's most ...

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