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

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NASA is about to lock in a verdict on how long its Perseverance rover can keep working on Mars, and the answer will shape the next decade of planetary exploration. Engineers have spent the past year ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

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“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

Perseverance is NASA's first mission that will search for signs of ancient life on another planet to help answer the big question: Was life ever present on Mars? The rover will explore Jezero Crater, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, more autonomous exploration.

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 ...

More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout the red planet. A team of researchers who analyzed the thousands of ...