Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

AI is coming for our jobs, and now we can add "Mars Rover Driver" to that list. Last month, the Perseverance rover successfully drove not one, but two trips across the Martian surface planned by AI ...

Scientists believe these rocks were formed by ancient rainfall, similar to how they form in tropical climates on Earth. The discovery adds to the evidence that Mars may have once been a habitable ...

Scientists believe these rocks were formed by ancient rainfall and humidity, similar to processes on Earth. The discovery adds to the evidence that Mars may have once been a habitable planet capable ...

February marks the five-year anniversary of Perseverance‘s time on Mars. But when it comes to trying out new things, NASA’s rover seems to be as active as it was on the day it first arrived on the ...

Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Over the years, the rover ...

Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.

Since it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA has kept its Perseverance rover busy gathering data and collecting important samples across various regions of the Red Planet. The agency recently ...

Far away on desolate Mars, a set of dust and rock samples awaits a ride that might never come. After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ...