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Highlights The Perseverance rover will touch down in Jezero Crater The rover will go through the riskiest "seven minutes of terror" New Delhi: In one of NASA's most ambitious projects, its Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on the surface of the planet Mars tonight (February 19), according to Indian time. The NASA Mars mission is aimed at conducting research in several areas such as astrobiology, including the searching signs of ancient microbial life.  It is the first mission in which Martian rock and sediment will be collected and brought to Earth. The rover will characterize the plan...

NASA has confirmed that the rover, which was launched this summer, will touch down in Jezero Crater, an ancient delta on the Martian surface, at around 2:25 am IST on Friday. A key objective of the mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life, said NASA.

US space agency NASA is commemorating the 35-year anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Thursday, its Day of Remembrance, recalling the landmark moment of “grief”. “Thirty-five years ago today, NASA and the nation lost seven of our family in a moment that left a timestamp on American history – a ‘Where were you when…’ moment created only when the shared dreams and values of a nation collide with shared grief”, NASA acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk said on the agency’s website. The Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Flori...

"The media froze our grief in newspapers and TV clips," Rodgers told TODAY. "It was so unbearable." Throughout the years, multiple books, documentaries and TV specials have been devoted to the Challenger disaster, including a recent Netflix docuseries, "Challenger: The Final Flight," which examined the mechanical failures and behind-the-scenes decisions that led to the destruction. Rodgers called the series "the most thorough" retelling of what happened. She's always known her husband had concerns about the mission. "We talked about those risks, and he was willing to take those risks," she s...

MetroWest Daily News FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – Thirty-five years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just over a minute after liftoff, killing all seven crewmembers, including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. NASA leaders, retired launch directors, families of fallen astronauts and space fans marked the 35th anniversary on Thursday, vowing never to forget the seven who died during liftoff. The Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, happening just 73 seconds after liftoff due to an O-ring seal failure, was the first fatal accident for NASA since 1967. The millions who watche...