PASADENA, Calif.- Scientists and engineers gathered Tuesday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to remember the legacy of the hard-luck rover Spirit that came through in the end with geologic evidence ...

The image was taken with SHERLOC, a high-tech instrument mounted on Perseverance's robotic arm, built to hunt for signs of life—though in this case, it captured something a little more whimsical.

A recent close-up shows a turtle-shaped rock on the surface of Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --NASA is accepting contest entries from student teams to design, build and test rovers on the moon and Mars. In the Human Exploration Rover Challenge, students need to make models that ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new autonomy and multitasking capabilities, it’s maximizing the output from its ...

There might’ve been life on Mars after all. Although it resembles a coral typically found at the bottom of the ocean, it was a piece of rock that a NASA spacecraft — Curiosity rover — recently ...

Happy 13 th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to ...

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few ...

NASA engineers testing a model of the Spirit rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA/JPL In the spring of 2019, the six-wheeled Spirit rover was driving backwards to drag an inoperable front ...

Space operations are extremely sophisticated and expensive undertakings. There are so many things that can go wrong, especially when it comes to on-ground missions on extra-terrestrial bodies such as ...