NASA has quietly crossed a threshold on Mars: its flagship rover is no longer just following orders, it is choosing its own path across the planet. The Perseverance rover now uses advanced onboard ...

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery ...

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

Think self-driving cars are impressive? Try a self-driving rover on a planet over a hundred million miles away. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Mars Perseverance rover had pulled off a stunning ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

What innovative rovers can be developed to advance Mars surface exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for ...

AI is coming for our jobs, and now we can add "Mars Rover Driver" to that list. Last month, the Perseverance rover successfully drove not one, but two trips across the Martian surface planned by AI ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...