NASA is quietly reshaping what surface exploration on the Moon will look like, trading the open buggies of Apollo for a new generation of smart, long-range rovers built for months of work in brutal ...

As space agencies race to set foot on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere, a not-so-glamorous problem could be the key to success: the functionality of a rover’s wheels in alien dirt. When NASA’s Spirit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes ...

Lunar Outpost’s Eagle is one of three designs in the running to be NASA's new moon rover. Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty ...

Since it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA has kept its Perseverance rover busy gathering data and collecting important samples across various regions of the Red Planet. The agency recently ...

FARNBOROUGH, England — A possible rover mission to Mars within the next eight years may rely on a larger parachutes, atomic clocks and inflatable decelerators, NASA's Mars exploration chief says. With ...

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Lighting conditions around Shackleton Crater captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA is looking into the adoption of light detection and ranging ...

NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.

That sound you hear? It’s the United States’ leadership role in space exploration disintegrating in real time. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced it was cutting 550 jobs as ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...