A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

After being on Mars for 12 years, the Curiosity Rover gets the latest software update, enabling parallel task execution.

Might a Martian rock just an inch wide be the key to unlocking an ancient ocean planet? NASA’s Curiosity rover on July 24 ...

Test-run shows how a team of three autonomous robots could search for extraterrestrial environments suitable for sheltering ...

In addition to highlighting it as a technology, Queeney explores what might be called the spiritual side of rope. It’s ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has stumbled across a curious, volcano-shaped rock on the surface of Mars that looks rather like a ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to ...

Jonathan Tan, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, has developed a new ...