When NASA's Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin touched down on the moon 40 years ago, they had an extra special tool packed away on their lunar lander: a dune buggy-size rover that ...

NASA and Nissan just announced a five-year partnership in the development of a self-driving car that will not only tackle city streets but also alien planets. Most of the research will take place in ...

NASA's Perseverance rover can drive autonomously on the red planet. The rover's enhanced AutoNav technology lets it take charge of its adventures. Perseverance is "thinking while driving" as its ...

Think self-driving cars are impressive? Try a self-driving rover on a planet over a hundred million miles away. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Mars Perseverance rover had pulled off a stunning ...

NASA has unveiled a one-of-a-kind vehicle that can perform a few out-of-this-world maneuvers ... perhaps because the technology behind it is borrowed from concepts for astronaut rovers designed for ...

NASA has released the first-ever recording of a rover driving across the surface of Mars. Perseverance, which arrived on the Martian surface in February 2021 on a two-year mission to search for signs ...

Nissan and NASA are building a car with a mind of its own. In the testing area of Nissan’s Research Center in Silicon Valley, Dr. Liam Pedersen presents his futuristic machine to ogle-eyed media.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nanochemist literally and professionally, now working in research tech Although space science can sometimes feel rather alien ...

It may seem akin to an alliance between a railway and a submarine manufacturer, but Japanese automaker Nissan has signed a pact with US space agency NASA to develop self-driving cars. The five-year ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover has successfully 'passed its driving test' in a major mission milestone that saw it move under its own weight ahead of its launch next year. The rover will leave for Mars in ...

The first vehicle in the zero-emission fleet is expected to hit the test track by the end of 2015. Nissan and NASA have partnered to build an autonomous vehicle. The car maker and space agency on ...