A new Mars rover design promises to change planetary exploration, using wheels modeled on the sandfish lizard to “swim” ...

NASA's next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth. The name was suggested by ...

The Mars Curiosity Rover has been doing experiments on the Red Planet since 2012, and while doing some drilling, managed to get itself a little bit stuck ...

It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent the past 13 years drilling through samples on Mars, and one rock ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover ran into one of the strangest problems of its Mars mission after accidentally pulling an entire rock ...

The results showed that robots equipped with compact instruments can greatly improve efficiency. This method speeds up both resource prospecting and the search for ‘biosignatures’ (ie, evidence of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. See a new timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on its ...

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, but the Mars rover Curiosity just keeps on groovin’—even if its handlers had to spend several ...

While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ...

Time is running out for NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit as engineers prepare to make their final attempts to rescue the hard-luck robot from its Martian sand trap. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...