NASA’s Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its own location on Mars without waiting for instructions from Earth, a capability the space agency formally announced on February 18, 2026. The system, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The weather was clear with a waning crescent moon hovering low on the eastern horizon, as four humans strapped in for a rocket ride to space. A SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Crew-12 mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — For the first time ever in Florida, SpaceX was able to land one of its Falcon 9 rockets just minutes after lifting off from an adjacent launch pad. It also means ...