The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's sophisticated instrument can detect subtle differences in two stable molecules ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars broke is driving record with a 1,350.7 feet (411.7 meters) ride on June 19, 2025. See a time-lapse of the ride here. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well as a soccer ball. By Kenneth Chang NASA has a spare Mars rover that it ...

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, which is currently housed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a new puzzle piece in Mars' geological history that hints that the Red Planet may have once harbored life.

Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars. In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, ...

NASA's Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in the late '90s, but even the latest members of the fleet still have plenty of limitations. For one, they ...

NASA’s ERNEST rover prototype drove 16 miles in 37 hours during desert testing, hitting 0.6mph. That is 10x faster than Perseverance or Curiosity on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a ...

The sandfish locomotion idea has been adopted from Scincus scincus, a lizard found in the Sahara desert. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...