European aerospace giant Airbus has taken two of its Mars rovers out for field tests in a quarry near London, showcasing for the first time a new robotic arm for autonomous sample collection on ...

rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along ...

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The latest evidence comes from an instrument called SHERLOC mounted on the six-wheeled rover’s robotic arm that enables a ... of life past or present on Mars, and that non-biological processes ...

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

A mad dash, by Mars rover standards. (The one-day distance record ... It is bristling with instruments, including cameras and an all-purpose robotic arm. It can drive backward.

And with good reason — the Mars 2020 mission has been in ... lives inside the forward section of the rover’s chassis. The Sample Handling Arm, or SHA, looks a little like the SCARA (selective ...

Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover. The suit ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...