The new Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is more than a fresh control room, it is a deliberate ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

The ExoMars team at Aberystwyth University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover ...

Among other things, the mission calls for a rover to be sent to Mars and drill up to two meters in search of underground biomarkers. Thanks to proposed cuts to NASA's budget, the US space agency's ...

With Elon Musk-esque dreams of promoting the exploration and eventual settlement on Mars, the Cornell Mars Rover project team crafts rovers designed to analyze rocks for signs of life and for ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it passed behind the planet. The agency is investigating the cause while reviewing the mission’s role in Mars science and rover communications ...

NASA has suspended use of one of the mineral-identifying tools on the Opportunity Mars rover while experts troubleshoot a problem with getting data from the instrument, the robot’s miniature thermal ...

NASA's Perseverance rover triumphantly celebrated the end of a tough climb out of the Jezero Crater on Mars with new images and a new science campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, has given the go-ahead to begin fueling the Mars 2020 (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars202 0) rover’s Multi-Mission ...

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming the weaker." NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil ...