As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling some ...

If the tire on your car fails, it’s either a case of changing it yourself or getting someone to do it for you. For rovers on Mars, neither option is available. The good news is that the wheels on NASA ...

Soon after NASA's Curiosity rover lands and becomes the hottest set of wheels on Mars, it'll debut as the latest Hot Wheels to land on toy store shelves. Mattel, Inc., makers of the die-cast line of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/MAHLI New photos reveal several sizable holes in one of the wheels of NASA's ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it's been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it's traversed more than 20 miles of the lunar surface, ...

You’ve probably heard the old metaphor about the impossibility of reinventing the wheel, but NASA found themselves in the position of having to do just that — literally reinventing the wheels on their ...

NASA has attached the wheels and suspension to the starboard side of the frame. We're one step closer to a functional rover now, and hopefully it will prove even more durable than Curiosity. Share on ...

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This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 8, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has carried its full weight on its legs and ...

Sometimes the wildest ideas work best. NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the 1 ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity ...

The assembly, test and launch operations team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, making significant strides in preparing the agency’s Mars ...