Two days ago, NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter crash...  ...rson Twitter accounts for spaceships, probes, and rovers , in order to engage the public. But NASA isn&rsqu...  ...t it. That award goes to China’s Yutu lunar rover . In January 2014, the Yutu published a series of...  ...situation to the fullest, a...

(Image: NASA)Clocking in at 11 years and 2 months,...  ...of another world. On Tuesday, NASA's Opportunity rover crossed the 26.219 mile mark during its sojourn a...  ...vious record was held by the Soviet Union's lunar rover Lunokhod 2, which traveled 23 miles in 1973. Oppo...

Stanford University researchers are working with N...  ...ravity and rough terrain would bog down a regular rover .Scientists nicknamed the robots "hedgehogs" due t...

Last month, after publishing my interview with NAS...  ...nterview with another member of the JPL Curiosity Rover team. Today, we finally get that interview with E...  ...nes, a key member of the JPL team that landed the rover on Mars.If you’ve been living under a rock...  ...ion-mile journey to Mars. She&...

This adorable rover pendant is actually a papercraft -which makes it...

NASA’s  Mars Science Laboratory hopes to an...  ... has Mars ever been able to sustain life. The new rover will have on-board equipment to experiment on soi...  ...the link. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is sti...  ...November or December of this year...

It’s hard to believe that NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit which was only supposed to function for a...  ...ndy dungeon, sometimes it seemed that NASA's Mars rover Spirit had at least nine lives. But yesterday, af...  ...2010, NASA decided to cut communications with the rover , putt...

NASA's Spirit rover {wiki} landed on Mars in 2004. After its planned...  ...rs in 2004. After its planned 90-day mission, the rover kept on working for another six years. Last May,...  ...tian environment. Now NASA has decided to put the rover into hibernation mode at least...