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China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ Rover Is Dead, and This Time It Probably Won’t Come Back
Farewell, Yutu, you reached for the Moon.
Life on Mars Will Have a Harder Time Hiding from NASA’s New Rover
Why the agency is sending a souped-up version of Curiosity to Mars.
Watch a Mars Rover Practice Its First Steps
The European Space Agency says this will be the "second most stressful moment" of the ExoMars 2018 mission.
An Astronaut Will Remote-Control a Robot on Earth from Space Today
“It is as if the astronaut could extend his arm from space to the ground."
NASA’s New Hedgehog Robot is Designed to Explore Comets and Asteroids
It’s like a microgravity Pokémon.
How Viking 1 Won the Martian Space Race
The lander that forced the Soviet space program to finally give up on Mars.
Meet the Robots Crawling Along the Ocean Floor
Jason can dive deeper than any human and stay underwater for days on end.
The Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its Third Year on Mars Today
On August 6, 2012, Curiosity pulled off a sick landing on Mars. Here’s what the rover has been up to since then.
NASA Is Studying Wind-Powered Robotic Probes for Exploring Gas Giants
NASA is studying the possible physics of “windbots.”
NASA Is Testing a Manned Vehicle That Will Explore the Martian Moon Phobos
It's impossible to drive on Phobos, and it's not going to hover—so what's this excursion vehicle going to look like?
Short Circuit Puts the Curiosity Rover's Fate in Question
Curiosity will be out of commission for several days after an electrical glitch.