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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, which is currently housed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

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 ...