Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a ...

NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

Secret WWII project Operation PLUTO laid HAIS and HAMEL undersea pipelines to pump fuel from England to liberated Europe, ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

“Not bad for an old man!” Capcom Bruce McCandless ribbed Alan Shepard, one of America's first 7 astronauts, moments after he ...

The accomplishment demonstrates real potential for future autonomous exploration and real-time decision making.

Author Tommy Orange rings in the New Year at the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii—and reflects on what we can learn from the land ...

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, carrying the Allies from Normandy beaches to the heart of the ...

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking raised an unusual possibility: the space rock could hit the Moon on Dec.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by ...

NASA has quietly crossed a new frontier in human–machine collaboration, handing a critical piece of Mars navigation to a commercial chatbot. Instead of painstakingly plotting every twist of the ...