Data from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use ...

On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled 16 miles (26 ...

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

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NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicated to studying the ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...