Mars rovers are robotic vehicles designed to explore the surface of the Red Planet. Since 1997, space agencies have sent a series of increasingly advanced rovers to Mars to search for signs of ancient ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they ...

When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel—as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009—Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of ...

Astrolab's FLIP rover, launching from Kennedy Space Center this year, will carry NASA science and tech to the moon, all in ...

Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck because the surface of the moon is "fluffier" than on Earth, suggests a new study. Researchers reckon they've finally worked out why the multi-million dollar ...

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 ...

NASA’s Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been working overtime to help scientists better understand ancient environmental conditions on the red planet. The rovers are also generating ...

Word is that by the end of this year, the American space agency will announce the winner of the competition that will see the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) being developed. That would be the wheeled ...

MADISON — When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, ...