Perseverance Mars rover: Latest photos, discoveries and news

NASA's tiny Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 40th time on Mars Thursday (Jan. 19), covering about 584 feet (178 meters) of ground during a 92-second sortie.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo recently of its robotic cousin Ingenuity as the tiny helicopter rested on a Red Planet sand dune.

NASA's Perseverance rover is wrapping up its prime mission after 687 Earth days on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its fourth rock sample tube at a location in Jezero Crater, meaning its first backup sample depot is now 40% complete.

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface, its longest sample yet.

The design of the sample return tubes carried by NASA's Perseverance rover looks suspiciously like a 'Star Wars' lightsaber, inspiring one NASA director to joke about using the Force on Mars.

NASA's Perseverance rover collected this tube's sample from a Mars region rich in organics. Scientists soon will scrutinize tubes like this for signatures of life.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 37th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), acing a hop designed in part to test the capabilities of its new software.

NASA's Perseverance rover is set to cache its first Mars sample in the next few days, kicking off a roughly month-long process that will see the robot drop 10 tubes of Red Planet material.

NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter made its 36th off-Earth flight on Saturday (Dec. 10), staying aloft for just over a minute.