U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Henry David Volpe performs maintenance on a HANX drone at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Jan. 23, 2026. (Sgt. Alfonso Livrieri/U.S. Marine Corps) The U.S.

AI is coming for our jobs, and now we can add "Mars Rover Driver" to that list. Last month, the Perseverance rover successfully drove not one, but two trips across the Martian surface planned by AI ...

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars. Also, listen to audio the rover recorded during it deployment onto the ...

For past me, the idea of 3D printing — just the mention of it, the sound of the words — always conjured up images of stuff like Tom Cruise and his wee red balls in Minority Report. I know, the 'precog ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a rare and striking nighttime view of Mars, giving scientists a new way to look closely at the planet's surface. The image was taken using special lights on the ...

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NASA has released details of a test it conducted in December in which it used generative AI to plan a route for the Perseverance rover. The test run seems to have gone rather well, prompting NASA to ...

The molecules: decane, undecane, and dodecane are hydrocarbons, long chains of carbon and hydrogen more commonly associated with petroleum on Earth. Their size alone sets them apart from previous ...

A few days back, NASA announced that it had carried out humankind's first AI-driven exploration of another planet, using the Perseverance rover on Mars, and behind the initiative was an Indian-origin ...

Plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult than setting a driving route here on Earth, where we can punch an address into Google ...