From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

Lighting conditions around Shackleton Crater captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA is looking into the adoption of light detection and ranging ...

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NASA’s Artemis IV mission, slated for launch in 2028, will feature a groundbreaking mini rover designed to study one of the Moon’s most mysterious challenges: lunar dust. The Mobile Autonomous ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just ...