NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles autonomously in 37 hours, moving 10x faster than Perseverance in a test that could reshape ...

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

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

This new home for NASA’s Mars rover mission was characterized by Jennifer Trosper, the ROC program manager, in the following ...

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

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

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...

Ever lose connection to GPS? Sometimes you're in a tunnel, sometimes your phone is acting up, and sometimes you're a robotic explorer on another planet hundreds of millions of miles away from the ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...