The Impact of Wheel Damage on the Mission The damage to Curiosity’s wheels is a reminder of the harsh environment that NASA’s ...

The two robots, working alone and far apart from one another, are struggling on their respective treks along the Red Planet's ...

"The image shows the MAHLI view of the right-middle (RM) wheel, which is still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars," Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at ...

The poor wheel is "still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars," according to a NASA update by Jet Propulsion Laboratory missions operations engineer Ashley Stroupe ...

During the Mars 160 -- a set of twin missions to both Utah and Nunavut in 2016 and 2017 -- our team undertook a floristic survey of the lichen biodiversity present at each site. During simulated ...

The size of a fingernail, PinPoint is the smallest gyro in Silicon Sensing Systems' MEMS product range and has been tested ...

We have to be very careful in the way we prepare missions, doing lots of cleaning of the technology, to make sure we're not taking life to Mars and measuring that. That's the last thing we want to ...

Two space-focused companies have joined SpaceX in the race to get a mission to Mars. Impulse Space Inc. and Relativity Space have joined forces per a video and several tweets announcing the juncture.

Michael Khan is a Senior Mission Analyst for the European Space Agency (ESA). His work involves studying the orbital mechanics for journeys to planetary bodies including Mars. The time it takes to ...

Any notion of an independent Mars means the perchlorate problem must be solved, because humans have to eat. Resupply missions are, by definition, Earth dependent, and hydroponics are inadequate ...

NASA has long declared that it intends to send astronauts to Mars, but not right away. First comes landing on the moon, again. Mars remains on the back burner. That’s not daring enough for Elon ...