It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover ...

NASA’s Perseverance has captured a sweeping new panorama of a rugged Martian region nicknamed “Crocodile Bridge”, revealing ...

A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

This image was captured on Oct. 2, 2013 on the 411th sol, or Mars day, of the Curiosity rover's mission on the planet. On the ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover spots ‘Crocodile Bridge’ in Jezero Crater, revealing ancient Martian rocks and raising fresh ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

Perseverance's mission is to seek signs of past life and collect dozens of samples for future return to Earth.

Curiosity has been on the Red Planet for almost 14 years, traveling up Mount Sharp, the major feature of Gale Crater.