The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z instrument has shared the first high-definition look at its landing site in Jezero Crater in the form of a 360-degree panorama, stitched together from 142 images.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed concerns on Wednesday about the social media history of President Joe Biden's nominee to be budget director, the latest warning sign for the White House since the Alaska Republican could seal Neera Tanden's fate.

No, it won't be little green men – here's what the rover is apt to see if it finds signs of life

In a landmark divorce case for China, a court has ordered an ex-husband to pay his former wife the equivalent of $7,700 for housework performed over the course of their five-year marriage.

More than 400 years after the first execution in Virginia -- of Captain George Kendall, accused in 1608 of spying for Spain -- the Old Dominion is on the cusp of becoming the first former Confederate state to abolish the death penalty.

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