When NASA prepared to land a rover on Mars, engineers turned to a design that looked more like a toy than a spacecraft.

One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered powerful new evidence that Mars’ Jezero Crater once hosted multiple rounds of flowing water, each creating conditions that could have supported life.

NASA’s Mars rover collected rock samples that could reveal if the planet once hosted life. Here’s what scientists plan to do ...

Near the Sun, where extreme heat is abundant, similar methods could, in principle, extract oxygen from CO₂ without added ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a sweeping panorama of Mars’ Gale Crater under exceptionally favorable viewing conditions, offering one of the clearest looks yet at the vast Martian basin.

With "one of the coolest jobs in the world", NASA rover operator Vandi Verma hopes women's high profile in the latest Mars ...

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...

NASA just brought back from the dead a science mission to the moon involving a water-seeking rover that many believed was already being disassembled and scrapped for parts. The U.S. space agency ...

NASA's rover Perseverance touched down on Mars as scheduled at 3:55 Eastern time yesterday afternoon, and NPR's Joe Palca was watching. JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Landing a rover on Mars is really, really ...