The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera to captured this view on the rim of Jezero Crater. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Instead, robotic missions including Perseverance have long depended on onboard sensors and cameras, imagery from orb ...

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

Being worried about an advanced AI coming for your job is totally valid, even if your job is piloting one of the most ...

Just like the Scarecrow of Oz, it turns out the rover was smart all along, it just didn't realize!

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

With the help of a new optical system, the Perseverance rover can determine its position on Mars autonomously and much more accurately than before.

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...