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A "charger" rover that could supply power to robots exploring shaded craters on the moon's south pole will join expanding lunar infrastructure by 2025.The world's space agencies have grand plans for the exploration of the moon performed…

Since it landed on Mars in February 2021, the rover Perseverance has been exploring Jezero Crater, a 50-kilometer-wide impact feature. The mission’s purpose is to look for evidence that Mars once had or maybe still…

A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge.…

It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed Sojourner, touched down in Chryse…

Most everyone remembers when Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) activated the alien reactor and the skies of Mars filled with breathable air. Admittedly, when I first watched Total Recall, I didn’t find this plot idea to be too…

The Ingenuity helicopter's first flight on Mars has been delayed, but NASA's Red Planet teams are staying busy with the larger Perseverance mission.The car-sized Perseverance rover has an ambitious agenda during its two-year primary…

Perseverance's laser hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.NASA's rover is waiting for its companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, to make the first-ever powered flight on another planet.…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 21 feet on the odometer in its first test drive.The Perseverance rover ventured from its landing position Thursday, two weeks after setting…

A view of the Perseverance rover captured by a camera on its rocket-powered backpack as the robot was lowered to the surface of Jezero Crater. The rover was about six feet off the ground when this photo was taken. Image:…

After zipping hundreds of millions of miles through space, the Mars rover Perseverance is just hours away from attempting to land on the red planet in what has been described as one of the most daring robotic maneuvers in NASA’s…