The planet is the seventh largest and is currently inhabited solely by robots. However, the space agency is working hard to ...

Artificial intelligence is making a huge splash now, but NASA saw its potential long ago. Here are four ways AI is helping the U.S. explore space.

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

Ancient Mars may have been surprisingly similar to planet Earth, a NASA rover has revealed ... It works by using a laser to create plasma on rock samples. It then collects the light, where ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost is actually flying up with a second commercial company's moonbound payload, the lunar lander Resilience, with a rover named ... moon and eventually Mars, but it will need ...

All thanks to NASA's planned Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at retrieving samples collected on Mars by the Perseverance rover and bringing ... speed—is offered by laser communication, but ...

These efforts – through orbiters, landers, and rovers – aim to map the planet’s surface ... is a compact instrument designed to detect and analyse organic molecules on Mars. It uses a desorption laser ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

Yet not much has changed since the days of the Sojourner rover of the Pathfinder mission, and that's something that simply won't work if we are to properly explore the Moon and Mars. There are ...