A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.

NASA's new rover prototype could inform the next-generation robotic vehicle that explore the moon and Mars. Here's everything to know.

NASA's Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in the late '90s, but even the latest members of the fleet still have plenty of limitations. For one, they ...

NASA's new prototype rover ERNEST is made to test technologies for moon and mars exploration.

Today's Mars rovers typically drive at about 500 to 1,000 feet per hour — roughly the length of one to three football fields — and only for short stints at a time. NASA engineers say they could go so ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

NASA is testing a new prototype rover named ERNEST to inform future missions to the moon and Mars. The new rover is more than 10 times faster than the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers currently on ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is developing a new rover bound for the rugged terrain of Mars and the moon that could put its predecessors to shame. In ...