Spider Butte and the Canyon de Chelly National Monument ("Tsèyi'" in Navajo) in Arizona is located on Navajo Nation land. Surface missions assign nicknames to landmarks to provide the mission’s team ...

With its latest Mars rover, the NASA Perseverance team has been naming features of the Red Planet with words from the Navajo language. The team worked with the Navajo Nation Office of the President ...

In a time where many Indigenous languages are endangered, two University of Wisconsin affiliates are working to bring new life to the Navajo language by developing science terms that previously did ...

As NASA's Perseverance rover starts to discover and identify interesting new features on the surface of Mars, the team back on Earth will need to start naming them — and they've chosen to honor the ...

The first scientific focus of NASA’s Perseverance rover is a rock named “Máaz” – the Navajo word for “Mars.” The rover’s team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice ...