After being on Mars for 12 years, the Curiosity Rover gets the latest software update, enabling parallel task execution.

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

Test-run shows how a team of three autonomous robots could search for extraterrestrial environments suitable for sheltering ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

The history of fabrics is a rich interweaving of design, culture, science, and survival. From prehistory to the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has stumbled across a curious, volcano-shaped rock on the surface of Mars that looks rather like a ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to ...

Jonathan Tan, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, has developed a new ...