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NASA starts work with ESA to launch Rosalind Franklin Mars rover in 2028

For the first time in more than a decade, NASA is building hardware for a European Mars mission. The agency formally approved ...
Gizmodo

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Over the past five years, a six-wheeled robot has been exploring the Martian terrain and capturing unusual features like a leopard-spotted rock, a tangle of strings, and textured rock formations that ...
Business Insider

How NASA is using AI and digital twins to replicate outer space on Earth

NASA's Perseverance rover uses AI and digital twins to safely navigate Mars's challenging terrain. Digital twins and AI help NASA monitor and predict conditions for the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...
Mashable

Mars evidence shows ancient river likely larger and faster than thought

A NASA rover has discovered signs of an ancient river beneath Mars' surface, using ground-penetrating radar to reveal buried layers of sediment left behind by flowing water. But this was not a lazy ...
Yahoo

NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars in some of the oldest evidence yet ...
Scientific American

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater

The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of Jezero Crater—rather than its surface, which NASA’s Perseverance rover has ...
techtimes

Mars Rover AutoNav and TRN Lunar Landing: Powering Self‑Guided, Human‑Free Space Missions

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond. Pixabay, ...
GPS World

NASA’s Perseverance doesn’t need GNSS to find itself on Mars

A new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is, without human help. Imagine you’re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no ...
Jalopnik

Mars Rover Finally Gets Martian GPS (Sort Of), One Step Closer To Autonomous Planetary Exploration

Ever lose connection to GPS? Sometimes you're in a tunnel, sometimes your phone is acting up, and sometimes you're a robotic explorer on another planet hundreds of millions of miles away from the ...
autoevolution

Mars Rover Found a Way to Locate Itself With No GPS Access and Zero Human Help

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...
WBAY

Perseverance Mars rover gets new ability, 5 years later

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - In today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes, good news last week for Artemis II and the moon shot turned into ugly news over the weekend. And Perseverance, which has rolled across the ...
Space.com

NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

"For pinpoint accuracy, it needed humans back on Earth — but not anymore." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...