Exciting advances in space exploration are underway as NASA tests revolutionary shape memory alloy (SMA) spring tires ...

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

Developed by NASA, shape memory alloy spring tires offer unprecedented durability for rovers, overcoming traditional material ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

A test rover with shape memory alloy spring tires traverses rocky, Martian-simulated terrain.Credit: NASA The mystique of ...

The helicopter served as an aerial scout for the Perseverance rover ... 2,310 feet. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is working on a concept for a next-generation Mars helicopter that ...

The NASA Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and dust since it landed on Mars in February 2021. Scientists believe those samples — collected from Jezero Crater, the former site of an ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket ... on the Mars Perseverance rover to transfer the samples ...