Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanishing behind Phobos. The rare alignment ...

A new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is, without human help. Imagine you’re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no ...

Audio is not provided for this article. Update from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A new system named Mars Global Localization enables the Perseverance rover to pinpoint its position on the Red ...