NASA’s Perseverance rover completed first AI-planned drives on Mars, led by Indian-origin roboticist Vandi Verma.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere and settled into Jezero Crater, it did more than stick a precision landing. For the first time, a robot on another world ...

The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of ...

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has demonstrated that the six-wheeled “Percy” Perseverance Mars rover has the durability to operate until at least 2031 and trek on for at least another 37 mi.

The study presents the first in-situ evidence of electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere, identifying 55 distinct triboelectric discharge events. These electrical discharges, unlike terrestrial ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has twice successfully demonstrated drives on the red planet planned by artificial intelligence (AI), an update from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI ...

NASA plans a 2028 nuclear-powered Mars mission using SR-1 Freedom and Skyfall helicopters, aiming to transform deep-space ...

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...

NASA has also been working on autonomous rovers that can explore and excavate on the Moon with minimal human direction. And ...

A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...