A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain ...

During a news conference on last week, NASA announced that the agency is "thinking very hard right now" about sending the ...

Space agency provides updates on lunar lander missions — and teases a World Cup soccer-ball moonshot.

Getting stuck in sand has ended dreams of exploration before. On Mars, where loose dunes, soft soil and rocky terrain stretch for thousands of kilometres, a trapped rover can mean the loss of years of ...

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 ...

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance ...

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 ...

Nasa funds trio of lunar landers, redirects Mars rover to Moon base push Private landers and a repurposed PROMISE rover will ...

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.