Nasa's perseverance mars rover eyes the tiny ingenuity helicopter, which is resting on reddish, rocky ground a few feet away from it. NASA has temporarily stopped sending commands to its ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

A robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence could solve the puzzle of providing oxygen to humans on Mars, according to the results of a new study. The study, published in Nature Synthesis, ...

Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet’s barren surface instead, all in the name of exploration. Researchers at China’s Nanjing University of Aeronautics and ...

As we push toward the next phase of human space exploration, there’s a lot of focus on using local materials at our final destination. Anything we can find or make on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere is ...

Perseverance rover was exploring the winds on a Martian crater when this sound got recorded in its SuperCam microphone.

Before humans ever set foot on Mars, fleets of autonomous robots will be doing the heavy lifting — from building habitats to ...

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The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

Rick Chappell, director of Science and Research Communications, director of the Dyer Observatory, and former associate director for science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville can ...