NASA has quietly crossed a threshold on Mars: its flagship rover is no longer just following orders, it is choosing its own path across the planet. The Perseverance rover now uses advanced onboard ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new evidence of chemical activity on Mars that could suggest the planet was once habitable. Samples of mudstones from the Jezero crater – an ancient basin long ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery have been named among the best inventions of the past quarter-century – at least, according to Time magazine. The media company recently assembled a list of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has yet again sent back spectacular photos of a sunset on Mars, but this time it looks surprisingly similar to a sunset on Earth. On November 18, 2025, the rover photographed ...

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Think self-driving cars are impressive? Try a self-driving rover on a planet over a hundred million miles away. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Mars Perseverance rover had pulled off a stunning ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...