NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

NASA funds new software to enhance drone navigation over featureless Martian terrain. This initiative supports autonomous ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

However, the most interesting equipment to be deployed in the future has to be the robodog. Called the Legged Autonomous ...

THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030. It is a landmark feat for the UK, and will be the first ...

NASA is training a dog-shaped robot named LASSIE-M for missions on Mars. The goal of NASA researchers is to develop a robot ...

Covered in the red dust that sealed its fate, the NASA InSight lander is slowly shutting down, more than 250 million kilometres from home. With its solar panels now obscured by the red planet’s debris ...

When the death of the NASA Mars rover Opportunity was confirmed last February, many sky-watchers and virtual space explorers felt they had lost an essential connection to Mars. Not artist Jean-Pierre ...

NASA's future plans to explore Mars may end up using astronauts as space messengers. The new idea surfaced as a special team looking for a new Mars robotic exploration plan released a preliminary ...

A six-foot-tall, 300-pound Valkyrie robot is seen at University of Massachusetts-Lowell's robotics center in Lowell, Mass. "Val," one of four sister robots built by NASA, could be the vanguard for the ...

WASHINGTON – NASA’s future plans to explore Mars may end up using astronauts as space messengers. The new idea surfaced as a special team looking for a new Mars robotic exploration plan released a ...