Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

The post Spectacular Night Skies Await The First Visitors To Mars, And Thanks To NASA’s Perseverance Rover, We’ve Got A Sneak Preview first on TwistedSifter. Day and night work very differently on ...

The Skyfall mission by NASA and Virginia-based AeroVironment plans to send six helicopters to Mars in one go, having all of them landing independently in different places. They will scout for spots ...

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make ...

These helicopters will assist in scouting safe landing zones for future robotic missions and, crucially, America’s first Martian astronauts.

"With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, the data we would collect ...

Cloud cover can keep optical instruments on satellites from clearly capturing Earth's surface. Still in testing, JPL's ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the lead NASA center for robotic exploration, which means the [Lab] sends robots – not humans – into space.

Following a short break for the July 4th holiday, Perseverance drove westward to a site called "Westport," where the ...