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On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI ...

The NASA Perseverance rover's left Mastcam-Z camera captured an image of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The little Red Planet chopper flew for the 72nd and final time after sustaining damage to its rotor ...

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled ...

Originally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team. After detouring through a dune field ...

Headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) are inescapable on Earth, ranging from celebrity deepfakes to breakthroughs in fundamental science. Now, it seems even Mars is no longer a haven from AI’s ...

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission has been delayed until at least March due to technical issues. A hydrogen leak was discovered in the Space Launch System rocket during a prelaunch test. A subsequent test ...

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NASA fueled up its giant lunar rocket and completed a launch-day walkthrough on Thursday ahead of its highly anticipated mission to send four astronauts around the moon. The hourslong test, known as a ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...