Teams with NASA's Mars 2020 and ESA's ExoMars practiced hunting for fossilized microbial life in the Australian Outback in preparation for their Red Planet missions.

A new paper identifies a ring of minerals at the rover's landing site that are ideal for fossilizing microbial life.

In this time-lapse video taken at JPL, engineers move the Mars 2020 rover into a large vacuum chamber for testing in Mars-like environmental conditions.

In time-lapse video, taken at JPL, captures the first time NASA's Mars 2020 rover carries its full weight on its legs and wheels.

Want to name the robotic scientist NASA is sending to Mars in 2020? The student who named Curiosity — the rover currently exploring Mars — will tell you this is an opportunity worth taking.

In time-lapse video, bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of protective foil on NASA's Mars 2020 rover after it was relocated for testing.

A crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from NASA's Mars 2020 rover after technicians tested the pyrotechnic charges that separate the two spacecraft.

A letter from NASA was presented to the mayor of Jezero, Bosnia-Herzegovina, honoring the connection between the town and Jezero Crater, the Mars 2020 rover landing site.

You have until Sept. 30 to send your names to Mars aboard the Mars 2020 rover.

Aiming to pinpoint the Martian vehicle's center of gravity, engineers took NASA's 2,300-pound Mars 2020 rover for a spin in the clean room at JPL.

Through Nov. 1, K-12 students in the U.S. are encouraged to enter an essay contest to name NASA's next Mars rover.

The helicopter will be first aircraft to perform flight tests on another planet.

Australia provides a great place for NASA's Mars 2020 and the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars scientists to hone techniques in preparation for searching for signs ancient life on Mars.

The bit carousel, which lies at the heart of the rover's Sample Caching System, is now aboard NASA's newest rover.

While separated by half a century, NASA's Apollo 11 and Mars 2020 missions share the same historic goal: returning samples to Earth.

Mars 2020 rover underwent an eye exam after several cameras were installed on the rover.

Hardware installed onto NASA's Mars 2020 entry vehicle this week will help to increase the safety of future Mars landings.

In this time-lapse video, the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover maneuvers its 88-pound (40-kilogram) sensor-laden turret as it moves from a deployed to stowed configuration.

NASA gives the go-ahead to fuel the Mars 2020 rover's Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, which will power rover and help keep it warm while exploring Mars.

The launch period for NASA's next rover, Mars 2020, opens exactly one year from today, July 17, 2020, and extends through Aug. 5, 2020.

Working like a finely honed machine, a team of engineers in this time-lapse video clip install test wheels on another finely honed machine: NASA's Mars 2020 rover.

With its rock-zapping laser, the SuperCam will enable the science team to identify the chemical and mineral makeup of its targets on the Red Planet.

The main robotic arm has been installed on NASA's newest rover. When complete, the arm will enable the rover to hold and use science tools like a human geologist would.

The contest for U.S. schoolchildren will open in fall 2019, but judges can sign up now.

With the mobility suspension in place, the rover not only looks more like a rover but has many of its 'big-ticket items' installed.

Engineers at JPL take a group selfie after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover.

The next robotic Mars mission will carry technology that will help enable astronauts to eventually explore the Red Planet.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) recently built a new calibration device for the rover to check SHERLOC’s function and properly tune it during the upcoming mission.

A newly installed webcam offers the public a live, bird's-eye view of NASA's Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft has completed tests that are the best Earthly approximations of what the spacecraft will endure during launch and interplanetary cruise.

From now till Sept. 30, the public can submit names to be stenciled on chips that will fly on the Mars 2020 rover and receive a souvenir boarding pass.

As the July 2020 launch date inches closer, the next spacecraft headed to the Red Planet is assembled for more testing.

The first helicopter to fly on Mars had its first flight on Earth.

In January, Mars 2020 engineers and technicians took over JPL's cleanroom to put the mission's cruise, entry capsule, descent stage and rover through their paces.

The MAVEN spacecraft today is starting a campaign to tighten its orbit around Mars to prepare to serve as a data-relay satellite for NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which launches next year.