NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is testing a new class of experimental rover technology that could reshape how future missions move across the Moon and Mars, according to a recent ...

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A rover deployment ramp built by Polish company Astronika has passed a demanding two-month test campaign ahead of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission, scheduled to launch in 2028.

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at an exponential rate over the past few years, prompting widespread concern that AI could start taking jobs away from real people. Unfortunately for the ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our neighboring planet was likely warm, humid and surrounded by a dense atmosphere.

NASA’s ERNEST rover prototype drove 16 miles in 37 hours during desert testing, hitting 0.6mph. That is 10x faster than Perseverance or Curiosity on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a ...

The Mars rover test model at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock Nobody likes to be the reserve driver. You don't want to sit back and be "support" while some other ...

NASA's Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in the late '90s, but even the latest members of the fleet still have plenty of limitations. For one, they ...

Europe’s next Mars rover has successfully rehearsed one of the riskiest moments of its mission: leaving its landing platform without becoming trapped. According to the European Space Agency’s October ...

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A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on the ...