NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

For five years the Mars Rover has been exploring without the aid of maps, GPS or even a brief idea of where it’s going without the help of people on Earth feeding it information ...

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing ...

Curiosity rover’s recent activities in the Boxwork unit include detailed bedrock analysis, Mastcam mosaics, and atmospheric monitoring, advancing NASA’s ongoing investigation of Mars geology.

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

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 ...

The rover, formally described as Spirit, MER, Mars Exploration Rover, kept working on Mars for years, long after its initial warranty had expired. That longevity forced the team to rethink what a ...

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

NASA’s rover has made a poignant discovery on Mars: the crushed remains of a helicopter that once soared through the planet’s thin atmosphere. This marks the end of a remarkable journey of 72 flights ...