A visit to Mars aimed at discovering what happened to the planet's atmosphere and water could illuminate much more: What happens in one of those not-even-once-a-century events when a comet passes ...

University team running the panoramic cameras, or Pancams, on the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been largely functioning out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. That’s ...

In the race to explore and establish a human presence on the moon and Mars, remote-control robots robots are emerging as a crucial technology that could transform how we handle resources and ...

Autonomous systems developed for ESA’s ExoMars rover, which will allow it to analyse Martian terrain and identify the best point on rocks to drill for samples without need for human intervention, ...

Johnson Space Center’s Remote Field Demonstration Test Site — also known as the “Mars rock pile” — provides a test bed for “dry run” tests of advanced spacesuit mobility studies. The half-acre test ...