A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the ...

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A fleet of ball-shaped rovers could drift across the Martian surface like tumbleweed, driven simply by the wind.

Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them.

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

Rovers explore distant planets for decades, where humans can't yet go. NASA sends signals from Earth to update the rovers and ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates are already making history. The 2025 class includes the first person to join the astronaut ...

Carroll College students studied how mineral formations could allow solar panels to be built on Mars' surface through "Martian blueberries." ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.