For the first time the rover's journey was planned by artificial intelligence (AI), and not by human operators, who usually ...

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

NASA and Japan are quietly lining up behind one of the riskiest bets in modern lunar exploration: a mission that will try to ...

In 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the Moon, the SNAP-10A became the first and only US ...

"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving." ...

NASA continues to capture amazing pictures from space. From detailed views of Mars to breathtaking perspectives of the Moon’s ...

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 ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It ...

During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.