A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

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Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

Mars is quietly turning into a long-distance proving ground, and the vehicle leading the pack is not a dune buggy but a rolling science lab. NASA’s Perseverance rover has already pushed past its own ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet. Nearly five years into its mission on the Red Planet, the car-sized rover still has enough ...

NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing ...

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...