NASA's new rover prototype could inform the next-generation robotic vehicle that explore the moon and Mars. Here's everything ...

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

Today's Mars rovers typically drive at about 500 to 1,000 feet per hour — roughly the length of one to three football fields ...

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

It did so in just five years.

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...

You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio signals from Earth take up to 22 minutes to arrive. This simple fact has stalled space construction for decades. The dream of building in space ...

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.

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