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An image sent back to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows the tread tracks left behind by its first drive on Mars on March 4. (NASA / JPL-Caltech) Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized on Mars. Today NASA announced that the Red Planet locale where its Perseverance rover touched down last month is called Octavia E. Butler Landing, in honor of a Black author who emphasized diversity in tales of alternate realities and far-out futures. “Butler’s protagonists embody determination...

NASA's new Mars rover, Perseverance, made its first short drive on the Red Planet on Thursday and took images of its own wheel marks in the Martian dust.

Climate Point: Space hurricanes, deadly flea collars and potential life on Mars Mark Olalde, USA TODAY © Ramon Padilla Mars Promo 2 GWS Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the Golden State and the country. In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde. This is an exciting edition, complete with more details on Mars, straight from NASA. To get you warmed up, here's a space appetizer, courtesy of Doyle Rice over at USA Today. For the first time, scientists observed a "space hurricane." Rotating above the North Pole, th...

Mission team members are participating in a virtual teleconference to discuss milestones achieved so far since the Feb. 18 landing and those to come.

Now that’s what you call a photo finish.