NASA is weighing whether to send a rover built from Mars hardware to the Moon’s south pole, a move that could fill the gap ...

This little rover went a long way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to ...

NASA's PROMISE rover, a twin of the Perseverance Mars rover, could be repurposed to scout the Moon's south pole.

Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

Nasa funds trio of lunar landers, redirects Mars rover to Moon base push Private landers and a repurposed PROMISE rover will scout the lunar south pole as NASA lays groundwork for a long‑term base ...

Ever since the dawn of space exploration, remotely controlled rovers have been successfully used to explore alien worlds. Yet, for decades now, they have all crawled to various points of interest on ...

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft watched from orbit.

Such a proposal represents outside-the-box thinking for NASA, which is becoming more common under Isaacman’s leadership.