NASA's 2026 Lunabotics challenge seeks a team or person to create a space robot able to move and build on the Moon's surface ...

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As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled ...

Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers.

Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers continue to refine the rover’s capabilities, ensuring it remains productive on the Red ...

LASSIE (short for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analogue Environments) is a quadrupedal robot built by engineers at ...

Separately, the NASA program of humans in space began as a cold war effort but has evolved significantly, especially since the end of the Shuttle era. The short-term goal for humans is embodied in the ...

Getting rovers to Mars was one of NASA's crowning achievements, but now the space agency is looking for different ways to get samples back to Earth.

With its rust-colored surface, Mars has more than earned its nickname, the Red Planet. But Perseverance has offered a new ...

Perseverance, which landed on Mars in February 2021, has now logged more than 23 miles across the Red Planet's surface. The turtle-shaped rock was spotted on the 1,610th sol, or Martian day, of its ...

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When liquid water still existed on Mars, it carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks, NASA said. Once the liquid dried, it left the hardened minerals behind. The "unique shapes" left today were ...