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 ...

To misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one mission may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

A major software update to the Curiosity rover will allow the robot to drive faster on the Martian surface and reduce wear on its wheels, potentially boosting the mission’s lifespan. Those are just ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. The rover’s “brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — It’s one of the most nail-biting, stomach-churning, blood-pressure-spiking tasks in technology — upgrading a computer to a new, “improved” operating system. Software creators do their best to ...