It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover ...

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has made an unexpected and monumental discovery on Mars that showcases the rover’s adaptability and ...

This image was captured on Oct. 2, 2013 on the 411th sol, or Mars day, of the Curiosity rover's mission on the planet. On the ...

NASA’s Perseverance has captured a sweeping new panorama of a rugged Martian region nicknamed “Crocodile Bridge”, revealing ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in ...

Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.