Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a broad panorama of Broom Point, a rocky location inside Jezero crater that provides a ...

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by ...

What innovative rovers can be developed to advance Mars surface exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

Ever since the dawn of space exploration, remotely controlled rovers have been successfully used to explore alien worlds. Yet, for decades now, they have all crawled to various points of interest on ...

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

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

This little rover went a long way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to ...

Explore the essential components of space missions, including rockets, orbiters, landers, and rovers, that enable space ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...