The space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover.

NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is testing a new class of experimental rover technology that could reshape ...

On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled 16 miles (26 ...

ERNEST, short for Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain, is a small prototype rover built to be more ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our ...

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

How will NASA’s next-generation rover navigate harsher terrain on the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent test at NASA Jet ...

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at an exponential rate over the past few years, prompting widespread concern that AI could start taking jobs away from real people. Unfortunately for the ...

The ERNEST project began with the goal of developing a simple, low‑cost rover that improves on the rocker‑bogie suspension ...

Could Martian mudstones be holding evidence of ancient microbes? New findings strengthen the case that the Red Planet once ...

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago ...

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