NASA’s Perseverance rover has just crossed an impressive mark on the Red Planet. It has now driven more than 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers), which is exactly the distance of a full marathon on Earth.

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft ...

NASA Perseverance rover Mars travel record: NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a remarkable feat, completing a marathon distance of 26.2 miles on Mars. This advanced rover, exploring Jezero Crater ...

Such a proposal represents outside-the-box thinking for NASA, which is becoming more common under Isaacman’s leadership.

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 ...

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 ...

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.