Every spacecraft NASA has sent beyond low-Earth orbit over the past two decades has relied on some version of the same brain: ...
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, May ...
Wind speeds on Mars are high enough to blow fleets of large spherical rovers that resemble tumbleweed across the Red Planet's surface, according to new wind-tunnel tests of small prototypes conducted ...
Perched along the rugged western rim of Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a dramatic new selfie revealing ...
Space operations are extremely sophisticated and expensive undertakings. There are so many things that can go wrong, especially when it comes to on-ground missions on extra-terrestrial bodies such as ...
MADISON — When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. See a new timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on its ...
In a simulation of Mars, a space rover is testing a control system with an unusual inspiration: insect brains. The software was created by Opteran, a startup based in the UK. But the idea originated ...