The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use ...

NASA is developing the next generation of surface exploration technology with its Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme ...

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day ...

The Mars Rover Design Team at Missouri University of Science and Technology won the University Rover Challenge for the second year in a row. The team competed against 35 teams from around the world at ...

The sandfish locomotion idea has been adopted from Scincus scincus, a lizard found in the Sahara desert. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These are curious questions that ...

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Stellantis $STLA and Jaguar Land Rover signed a non-binding deal Wednesday to explore opportunities to collaborate on product and technology development in the U.S ...

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...

The Perseverance Mars rover poses against a dramatic backdrop of ancient Martian terrain in a new selfie. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spent more than three and a half years exploring Mars's Jezero Crater, building up a remarkable catalog of mineral discoveries. In a new study published in the Journal of ...