One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander to touch down near the rover, use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars ...

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

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water 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 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

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.

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

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring ...

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

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

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

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