The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software ...

NASA borrowed some ideas from the Spirit, Opportunity and Perseverance missions to help Curiosity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has performed its shortest-ever flight, the first after a major software update that will allow the little chopper to land more safely and navigate over rugged terrain ...

Designing, building, and testing a spacecraft isn't cheap — not to mention the cost of launching it and sending it on a journey to another planet. That means once a spacecraft is in place, like the ...

The MARSIS instrument on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water on the Red Planet, is receiving a major software upgrade that will allow it to see ...

In context: Launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, the Curiosity rover was designed for scientific investigations during a two-year mission. Twelve years later, the car-sized machine is ...

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being ...

One of the European Space Agency's lowest cost and most successful missions, the Mars Express, is finally receiving a software upgrade. Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has recently received significant upgrades as it ditches Microsoft Windows 98. The Martian probe of the international space agency is roaming the red planet to ...