NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

NASA’s annual Lunabotics Challenge invited nearly 50 university teams to Central Florida to see whose robot can build the ...

For NASA's Perseverance Rover, life on Mars has been a marathon, not a sprint. For more than five years, the six-wheeled ...

The Great Salt Lake's decline is providing valuable scientific data for astrobiologists, but the cost is being paid by the ...

The image was assembled from 61 individual images taken by a camera mounted at the end of Perseverance's robotic arm.

Exploring Mars used to be a top priority for NASA and SpaceX. But a dramatic shift is underway as the administration tries to cut science spending and return to the moon. For decades, Mars has been a ...

But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity ...

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover keeps cruisin’ and can’t stop, won’t stop movin’—except when its drill got stuck in some rock. The problem started on April 25. That date was supposed to be Curiosity’s ...

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 ...