Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...

A Sahara desert lizard has inspired a new approach to Mars rover mobility. The research could lead to more capable explorers ...

How SPARK helps provide that this cyber-physical system will operate as specified. This is Part 3 of the four-part series on ...

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding ...

The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use wheels to do so. Scientists have now copied the reptile's swimming motion in an ...

Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars. In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, ...

NASA is testing a new prototype rover named ERNEST to inform future missions to the moon and Mars. The new rover is more than 10 times faster than the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers currently on ...

Perseverance is officially a marathon finisher. NASA shared this week that the Mars rover has surpassed a total distance of 26.2 miles since it landed on the red planet five years ago. Considering its ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

During a recent field test in the Colorado desert, a four-wheeled rover traveled across 16 miles (25 kilometers) in a little over a day and a half, lifting its mesh wheels to drive over obstacles in ...